OT: What is Your Favorite Sound

Submitted by Steve Breaston… on

Straight from my homeboy James Lipton comes a question that I've tried to answer for weeks: what is your favorite sound? Is it a beer can cracking open? The ping of a perfectly-hit drive? The crowd after a buzzer-beater? The opening notes of Hail to the Victors? Your ex saying "I'm not pregnant?"

My favorite sound in the whole world has to be a putt hitting the bottom of a cup. It sort of represents one of 18 culminations of a job well done (or not, depending).

 

DISCUSS

BlueBarron

May 13th, 2015 at 11:11 AM ^

The propeller blades of a hovering MV-22 Osprey. Just something soothing about the low pitch and bass and oh my goodness still 112 days until the Utah game.

In reply to by TyTrain32

West German Judge

May 13th, 2015 at 11:53 AM ^

This one's called "yaybahar.  I tried to make it start around the 4:27 mark.

"Yaybahar is an electric-free, totally acoustic instrument designed by Gorkem Sen. The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via the coiled springs to the frame drums. These vibrations are turned into sound by the membranes which echo back and forth on the coiled springs. This results in an unique listening experience with an hypnotic surround sound.



What you hear in this performance is captured in realtime without any additional effects and with no post audio processing."

It reminds me of the games Myst and Riven, which blew my mind back in the day.

Everyone Murders

May 13th, 2015 at 11:31 AM ^

I like the sound of an Oreo being twisted apart.  It's like the breeze from a butterfly's wing causing a flutter of an eyelash.  It's sublime.

Hydrox's sound like shit, though.  Too much sugar content makes a grating noise that is like knitting needles in your ear.  I'd listen to nails on a chalkboard 20 times before listening to a Hydrox being twisted apart once.

(Looking forward to future threads on favorite odors, tastes, colors, etc.  Maybe we can follow that up with threads on least favorite sounds, odors, tastes, colors, etc.  And then it will be ... mid-May already.)

 

LSAClassOf2000

May 13th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^

The OT Season is sometimes not easy either, but for an entirely different set of reasons than the non-OT Season, or so I have found in my experience as a mod here. Actually, I might wait for  "Favorite Cheers Character" and "Favorite Iteration Of The NBC Baseball Music", perhaps even "Favorite Game On The Price Is Right"....I have some pointed opinions about these. 

the_benjy_vortex

May 13th, 2015 at 11:30 AM ^

Since I don't have children and can't attest to their sweet laughter, I'm gonna go with the squishy sound an excited lady's nether regions make upon insertion.




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ijohnb

May 13th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^

sorry but this comment should be deleted.  Come on, what is this?  There are plenty of sites you can go to for a discussion of graphic sexual activities.  M Go Blog just should not be one of them.

jabberwock

May 13th, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^

1. My 3 kids laughing uncontrollably (luckily happens on a daily basis)



2. A White Throated Sparrow (also a daily occurrence now but also evokes a ton of good memories)



3. A tie between a) bagpipes & b) "The Lamentation of the Women"

JHendo

May 13th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^

Like others have said, the sound of myown child laughing is far and away the best sound in the world.  There's nothing fake or obnoxious about her laugh, it's simply the sound of a toddler who thinks they just saw/heard/did the funniest thing in the world.  No sound can can ever compare.

As an honorable mention, I'll also thrown the sound of Alka-Seltzer.  I remember taking my dad's as a kid just so I could play with them.  So worth it: Alka-Seltzer sounds