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Originally Posted by extrashaky
No it's not. A placebo by definition is designed to have no measurable effect by itself, with any actual physical effect coming from suggestion rather than through physical means.
My exhaust is measurably louder and has an objectively different tone. Unlike a placebo, it's designed to have a physical effect on the driver's eardrums. The accompanying psychological effect comes through a direct physical manipulation. We're not imagining that difference in sound from a suggestion that it sounded different.
A placebo effect would arise from having someone replace your stock exhaust with another stock exhaust exactly like it and believing it made your car faster. We don't believe our cars are faster. We know they aren't. It can't be a placebo effect if we don't believe it's working.
Even if we did, it still wouldn't be placebo. It would be confirmation bias. But that's not happening here either.
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Confirmation bias is rampant on this forum.
We see it all the time.
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Originally Posted by iLuveKetchup
I've never heard a good sounding twin on the street, autox, or track.
The engine/exhaust sounds like it's struggling and unwilling.
But I do agree, a good sounding exhaust note plays a big part of enjoying the car.
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Subjective. I do not hear any such sounds. I hear that odd boxer exhaust note. I love the boxer noise. I can not stand the sound of an inline 4 that so may love and want to get. They all sound anemic and whinny compared to a boxer.