If you've felt a big lion's roar real close-up, he gives you an oddly similar visceral feeling.
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Very astute observation.
Not a lot of people have heard a male lions full on roar. I can be heard for miles.
Most have only heard a mild version from the poor caged animals in a zoo.
Like some wives
Re: The best sounding engines ever
Posted: 02 Apr 2018, 00:22
by Maritimer
Top Fuel cars are different from anything I've ever experienced. They have very little treble when running, it's all mid and bass. Shakes every molecule in your body, you get a standing wave in your eyeballs when they go past and you feel the air move inside your lungs. Mobile earthquakes.
Re: The best sounding engines ever
Posted: 02 Apr 2018, 01:11
by Bence
Top Fuel = LOUD, Earth-shattering? Yes.
Best sounding? Not in my book.
Interesting that a similar machine was featured in 'On Any Sunday' nearly 1/2 a century ago..
In fact, that classic movie really did show British bikes at their peak, inc' winning the No 1 plate.
Here's another 'dinosaur' showing it can still - 'kick out the jams'..
There certainly is something 'musical' in the sound of engines with even-firing multiples of 3 cylinders,
here's a racing Jag, snarling out its booming bass-baritone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9I7GWllPFY
Re: The best sounding engines ever
Posted: 03 Apr 2018, 02:31
by J.A.W.
Kevin Cameron considers the 'music' made by triples, & by the syncopated beat of staggered crank V's..
Interesting that a similar machine was featured in 'On Any Sunday' nearly 1/2 a century ago..
In fact, that classic movie really did show British bikes at their peak, inc' winning the No 1 plate.
Here's another 'dinosaur' showing it can still - 'kick out the jams'..
