i only hear the rattly engine noise in Sport mode. Guess I just got to get used to it or unplug the module. Just sounds bad with heavy, sudden throttle inputs.
Rattling? That description doesn’t seem like it’s the fake noise maker….UNLESS it is exacerbating buzzes or rattles in the interior or something?
maybe that's not the best word for it. Just sounds very raspy like an old school Honda in VTEC.
OK. It is very likely the fake noise maker, then. At best it sounds somewhat realistic, mainly the low tones that are less localizable. Most of the time it just simulates weird, farty, sounds coming unnaturally from the footwells and A-pillars…you know…like old skool VTECs.
there's a module behind the glove box. I've read different things though. Some say it's just artificial noise and others say it has a microphone in the engine and it's just amplifying the real engine noise. and others claim it's "piped in" somehow which i think is false. anyone know how it works?
On the type s. It uses the microphones to do this active noise cancellation when in comfort. It really does insulate U from sound very very well. Almost freaky. In sport and sport plus it’s piping in the actual engine and exhaust sounds. It’s not a track either because when I changed my exhaust the piped in audio definitely changed too. Same with the intake. It isn’t offensive at all. I really like it. The type r has some crazy fake engine track playing. It sounds like no engine I’ve ever heard in my life. Almost synthetic and fake.
That sort of seems to describe the Si, but then the sound feels smoothed over almost like it's an old NES game. It didn't really annoy me, but I was bored one day and decided to unplug the module. No regrets but I will say that in spirited driving through the canyons, it's a bit too quiet now. But I still don't regret unplugging it. Probably my favorite "mod."
