Found this while looking for a song the Coors did a cover for......not being bias but having an Engineers ear, the spitfire wins regardless.
But thats because that particular Spit is a glorious Griffon engine version, and the Fw190 is one of the new build Flugwerke 190's fitted with a nasty Chinese licence built version of the Russian Ash82 radial engine, so not quite the same sound as an original Fw190 with the BMW801 engine. The Ash82 is about the same capacity as the original BMW though at around 41 litres, so a bit bigger than the 37 litre Griffon in the Spitfire.
To my recording engineer's ears it mostly sounds like the difference between a radial and a V12 engine. Each has its attractions. The radial in this case idles at a lower speed giving it a chugga-chugga sound while the Griffon is smoother sounding at low RPM. The radials are always more throaty-sounding to me as well.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
I love the sound of the Focke-Wulf. Throaty, deep...
Sent the link to my dad and he told me the Spitfire sound raised the hair on his back.
When he was a kid, in 1944, he was strafed by one while going somewhere on his bike.
He jumped in a ditch and got out of this unscathed, but he really got frightened.
At the age of 9, I would understand it very well.
Hearing that sound now, 75 years later, the memory came back.
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Originally Posted by bigduke6
Airworthy A-8 replica
