11-22-2017, 07:41 PM
I find it to be one of life's cruel ironies that as people get older and their sense of hearing begins to degrade they generally also tend to prefer more peace and quiet. (I believe this has something to do with our diminished ability to "separate the signal from the noise" as we age.) It's hard to pin down what exactly constitutes "loud" (or quiet for that matter) without some level of reference being applied such as how many decibels of sound pressure are being generated when measured from a certain distance.
I didn't really mind that the stock exhaust on my CB1100 was so quiet. It was the tone of the exhaust note that was less than satisfying to my ears. I resolved this by replacing the stock can with a Staintune slip-on. It's the nature of the exhaust note tone that is my primary concern (provided that the sound pressure levels produced are still considered reasonable).
I had an opportunity to obtain a really clean Supertrapp system for my Hawk GT for an amazing price so I bought it. The Supertrapp exhaust is interesting in that you can adjust the exhaust passage (along with making it louder or quieter) by adding or removing disks to the end of the can. Sadly perhaps, I never did bother to install it as I was actually quite happy with the exhaust note of the factory unit.
I certainly wouldn't consider either the factory exhaust on the Hawk GT or the Staintune on the CB1100 to be "loud" exhausts. But again, without some standardized point of reference for comparison, this probably doesn't mean all that much to the next guy (or the person who prefers the nearly silent nature of electric vehicles).
I didn't really mind that the stock exhaust on my CB1100 was so quiet. It was the tone of the exhaust note that was less than satisfying to my ears. I resolved this by replacing the stock can with a Staintune slip-on. It's the nature of the exhaust note tone that is my primary concern (provided that the sound pressure levels produced are still considered reasonable).
I had an opportunity to obtain a really clean Supertrapp system for my Hawk GT for an amazing price so I bought it. The Supertrapp exhaust is interesting in that you can adjust the exhaust passage (along with making it louder or quieter) by adding or removing disks to the end of the can. Sadly perhaps, I never did bother to install it as I was actually quite happy with the exhaust note of the factory unit.
I certainly wouldn't consider either the factory exhaust on the Hawk GT or the Staintune on the CB1100 to be "loud" exhausts. But again, without some standardized point of reference for comparison, this probably doesn't mean all that much to the next guy (or the person who prefers the nearly silent nature of electric vehicles).