It's not always obnoxious, but it can be a little obnoxious at times, although I'm still a supporter of it and after today even more so. Today it was different than ever before when I drove it. Typically it gets to sounding better after you've been driving a few minutes, but today the VX sounded and performed great just after start-up, with no dead spots under hard acceleration - very smooth and consistent power. Not like I wanted it to go - more like it wanted to go. What exactly I should attribute this performance to is a mystery, but the PV2 sounded just right and there wasn't too much or too little heard from it. They say they mellow with age.

A lot of this is just psychological. Honestly, there have been some times where I felt like I had lots of noise and not enough go (and sometimes ya lay off the gas a little so it won't be so loud, but it still makes the noise and you're going slower so that makes it look worse LOL), and while it didn't sound real ricey, I felt kinda ricey. What you have to do is just drive like you always did. It amplifies the sound of course, so when you're not really gasing it much it sounds like you are and you're sitting there thinking you oughta be going faster with all that noise. In reality, it sounds like you're giving it more gas than you really are, so give it more. It only SOUNDS like you're running it too hard. And it will sound better when you do.