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Originally Posted by Spook410
To those hairy chested types that want as many decibels as possible in their visceral driving experience.. umm.. that's nice. Rather than trying to diminish what others want, just roll down the windows. Or see if there is a hack later to turn up the fake noise from the stereo..it was put there for you.
For those of us that want a quiet daily driver to enjoy Bach on the way to the office with minimal mechanical intrusion, tire of a loud drone cruising at 80mph for hours on end, and/or would like to carry on a conversation with someone while driving, I really do get it. Removing sound deadening is either a misguided candidate for weight loss or a cheap trick to make a car seem more sporting.
Thing is, very few of the reviews I saw even noted the sound level relative to highway driving. Possibly, as a demographic, they were all hairy chested too but I'm hoping the sound level will be tolerable. I mean, it would have taken line spaces away from oddly rabid rants about the rev match but I still think it would have been mentioned if it were really awful. In any case, if it is too loud for a car designed to somewhat evenly split track duties with more mundane pursuits, there is nothing we can do. At this point the alternatives fade and we'll just have to take the M2 for what it is.
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If you plan on 'listening to Bach on the way to the office,' you want a 7 series. Seriously. I've yet to drive an M (granted, I have only been in the E30, E36 and E46) that would permit anyone to listen to Bach (or anything else) at less than ear splitting volume and expect to hear any detail over the Mahlerian symphonic background of road, engine and exhaust music. I mean really. The Well Tempered Clavier just won't cut through it, with or without 'sound deadening' stuffed in the door panels and glued under the hood.