What's the best sound ever???

[Couperman]

nothing like a good fettling under the hood [/quote]

I've always found a good fettling under the hood produces a very distinct sound

[Darron Edwards]

Ur quattro / supermarine spitfire mk1a / class37 loco on full thrash!

[5potnoodle]

Originally Posted by tommyboy

That video of the E2 is simply Stunning. . There's only one car "sound" that i believe come's close.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--pWnS_h2g8

Originally Posted by Groomus

Shame the Imprezza only makes a similar sound due to unequal length exhaust manifolds.

Fit a certain manifold upgrade,and the sound is just like a parpy 4 cylinder,with some choice WoOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM of course

You're quite right Tommyboy but... er... that vid is of a Scooby with the equal length manifolds, it sounds watered down and buzzy compared to the WRC96 version with unequal lengths and proper growl as driven by the then world champ Colin McRae.... like this one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHIjcoDbLHg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHIjcoDbLHg

That's why I'm keeping unequal lengths on my Forester. Not as nice a sound as a 10v 5pot (which IMO sounds better than that fancy lahdedah 20v stuff) but at least I can get parts for an old Subaru and not worry about making some noise

[missfire]

Originally Posted by trevithick

Surely you forgot one from the first list ?
YouTube- Pure Merlin Engine Sounds "Without Music"
Nice
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i was going to say that... beat me to it

sound in this vid is c**p...but its a funny vid!

YouTube- Low Spitfire Pass

YouTube- Low Spitfire Pass

[Strangelandeddie]

I'm sorry but nothing comes close to the sound of the wife sleeping like a baby

[tttoptotty]

Originally Posted by Couperman

nothing like a good fettling under the hood

I've always found a good fettling under the hood produces a very distinct sound [/quote]

You cant beat a good fettling in the righ hands

[Hanuman]

Originally Posted by Isimmo

Good lord, that's some of the worst train driving I've seen in years!!! Be nice to see at least an attempt to release the train brakes before trying to move, then grinds to a halt, fannys about with the power, gives the world and his wife the chance to bugger up the train dispatch process, still can't find the 'go' handle under the weight of incompetence and finally staggers out of the platform... I'm glad I'm not his Standards Manager... Painful...

How can you be sure it was you driving?

Originally Posted by Isimmo

Vulcan all the way....

Sadly, from those clips, it's a little unfair. The quattro shots do more justice to the sound than the vulcan clip respectively. To truly appreciate the Vulcan, you need to be close by, to feel it affecting your heartbeat and breathing....

As for the train clip. What a waste of bandwidth...

[Alpha]

Originally Posted by Strangelandeddie

I'm sorry but nothing comes close to the sound of the wife sleeping like a baby

Depends whose wife I suppose..

[Isimmo]

Originally Posted by Mark Hanman

As for the train clip. What a waste of bandwidth...

Totally agree... And I know it wasn't me driving, it didn't overload on first take-up... All English Electric locos overload rather than de-compound like Sulzer engined locos.... Being brought up on Sulzer locos, the first thing you learn to do on EE locos is to 'learn' each locos terminal overload point... And the only way you can do that is to wind it up and let it overload.

[AAN 5pot]

The E2 I5 revs to 8500 i think.

vulcan is british engineering at its best.


both are music to the ears