Most pleasing sound vs most hifi sound

Rodman, if you had to live about a hundred yards down the street from a biker bar, you would not think the exhaust note from a Harley was the sound of freedom. It was the sound of torture for my wife and me. We had to sell our home and move to escape the "freedom", and to keep our sanity. Try listening to your home system with those bikes constantly tearing up the neighborhood, with ninety percent of them taking out the baffles to make them even louder. They say they do it to make drivers of cars know when they are coming. But you don't hear the noise until they are going away, since it's coming out the back of the exhaust. The sound of "freedom"? The sound of "Hey,look at me."

A car system is in a closed acoustical space, so detail and low level information are more readily discerned. In addition, the car runs off of a 12Volt battery...DC, as opposed to AC wt grunge:(

I think it has a lot to do with being preoccupied while listening. There's a lot to say about driving to the beach and playing tunes you love or twisting through the mountain pass while listenning to your prefered musical passage.

Sitting at home is just very different..perhaps clinical at times. I actually like reading, watching a ballgame (without sound on) or surfing the net (like right now) while I play music. It's the rarest of rare that I just sit and stare into space while listening.

Abucktwoeighty- You should feel sorry for those bikers. Generally speaking: The louder the pipes and the longer the front-end, the shorter the penis(it's a way of compensating). My neighborhood has it's share of noise too. I've installed 1/4" Lexan over my listening room's windows, which blocked about 80% of it. I listen at fairly stout SPLs too, which takes me to more pleasant places. What gets on my nerves are those little scooters without baffles that take 15 minutes to drag their sorry butts out of hearing range at full throttle. OH- I've always had dragpipes on my bikes too, but with partial baffles(nothing to compensate for).

Chris,

Did suggestions in this thread help - did you figure out why you like your some aspects of the sound from your car Grundig system (probably pretty darn good as far as car systems go) versus your home system?

Just curious - your threads often start and then digress and peter out with no resolution or closure...do you feel any different about your car sound now then you did a few days ago when you started this thread outof curiosity?