# The best sounds in the world. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 30, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766 "2009-07-30T12:15:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/21 "2009-07-30T15:43:15Z")
The sound of a furnace, the blowing of warm air through the vents in Winter. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/22 "2009-07-30T16:15:35Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > I also love baby giggles. Oh. Well, [here you go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j3WQsM28AU) ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/23 "2009-07-30T17:11:20Z")
In general, the dawn chorus and sound of the ocean hitting the beach at night are my favorites. In specific, the sound of my half-feral cat, Nijel the Destroyer, announcing his presence after being missing for almost two months, waking me out of a sound sleep at three in the morning. That was a year ago, and even now I get a sort of happy echo when he wakes me up to be fed at odd hours. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/24 "2009-07-30T17:15:40Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Content baby sounds are one of the best sounds in the world but, of course, the opposite of that is the worst sound in the world. They are extremists. A shrieking baby is INDEED not only physically uncomfortable, but emotionally worrisome and draining. They are little gurgling contradictions…They smell good AND bad. They’re cute AND goofy-looking. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/25 "2009-07-30T17:28:59Z")
My shears cutting through new fabric – aka the promise of a exciting new project. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/26 "2009-07-30T17:37:19Z")
As someone who has been deaf due to medical problems more than once in his life, I love nearly every sound I hear. There is music in the rush of traffic, the chirps or birds, and in the sound of the AC running. I like hearing people talking, radios blaring, machinery in use, even the sound of running water is amazing. Pachinko parlors, pinball arcades, emergency vehicle sirens, the sound of elevator doors opening with that little “ding!” accompaniment… All are wonderful to hear. Oh, but rain… rain is truly remarkable. I’m from Florida. I now live in the desert. I miss the daily rains Florida has, and when it rains here, even in the middle of the night, I’ll get up, go outside, and sit on my porch and watch and listen and smell the rain. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/27 "2009-07-30T17:40:18Z")
The nicker of greeting from a friendly horse, that throaty huh-huh-huh sound. The purr of a kitten or cat. When my Papillon puppy is overcome by happiness (like when she sees dinner coming) she’ll throw back her head like the world’s tiniest wolf getting ready to howl, but instead what comes out is this little trilling “wrrrr-wrRRRR”…just the cutest sound in the universe! I agree about the squeak of leather, too. A quiet night filled with frogs & crickets. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/28 "2009-07-30T17:45:38Z")
Thunder. Belly laughs. The SO having an orgasm. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/29 "2009-07-30T17:50:34Z")
Nothing quite makes me tingle like the sound of a lightsaber firing up. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/30 "2009-07-30T17:50:47Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > “I’m all right!” after a huge crash in the other room. Keerap, I actually had to physically put my hand over my mouth to keep from laughing too loudly at that. Yes, we have a young child. Why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/31 "2009-07-30T18:00:59Z")
In chemistry class in high school, there was this old vacuum pump that made the best noise ever. Everyone in the class instantly had a huge grin the second it was turned on. It made the most cheerful “BOINK BOINK BOINK” sound, like a robot or computer might make in a 50’s SF movie. Or possibly a sound effect in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/32 "2009-07-30T18:02:58Z")
The sound of a cork coming out of a nice bottle of bourbon. It makes such a satisfying sound, when sitting around the campfire, and anticipating the warming liquor’s flavors. I always make sure to put the cork back in between drinks. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/33 "2009-07-30T18:03:25Z")
A light rain outside of my window as I try to sleep. The sound of a baseball hitting a mitt. Making a girl I really like/love give nice, hard, genuine laugh ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/34 "2009-07-30T18:18:22Z")
The guitar player chunking out the one-fingered A-chord while checking his overdriven tube amp while the drummer takes a run across his kit and the bass player plays his favorite riff on the low notes of his five-string, just before the sticks clack out 1-2-3-4 and everything comes together in a song you all wrote together. ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_and\_Miracles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Beauty\_and\_Miracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_and_Miracles)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/35 "2009-07-30T18:20:33Z")
This girl I fancy’s voice. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/36 "2009-07-30T18:54:34Z")
My mum used to call the noise of can of soda-pop makes when opened “The call of the wild” because I’d show up and ask for some, like a cat responding to a can opener noise. I like the sound of rain, wine corks popping and the gentle ping-ping-ping of the microwave when my sweetie makes chai for me in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/37 "2009-07-30T19:01:18Z")
The sound of kids playing in a sun-splashed playground. I enjoy sitting on a parkbench with my eyes closed, taking in the sun, and listening to the sounds of happy kids. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/38 "2009-07-30T19:38:15Z")
That little gasp a woman makes at the moment of penetration. Hey, you asked. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/39 "2009-07-30T19:43:09Z")
> [@Simmerdown](#): > > The guitar player chunking out the one-fingered A-chord while checking his overdriven tube amp while the drummer takes a run across his kit and the bass player plays his favorite riff on the low notes of his five-string, just before the sticks clack out 1-2-3-4 and everything comes together in a song you all wrote together. Nice description. Ooooh! You reminded me of another one of my favorites: the sound of an entire symphony orchestra tuning up at once. First that one lone “A” plays out, and then … ahhh. 🆒 All those bleats and hoots. Love it! ---
**Author:** ![NoRadar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/41988e/32.png) [@NoRadar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoRadar)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766/40 "2009-07-30T20:49:44Z")
The snaps, crackles, and pops of a fire on a cold winter’s night; The sound of cowbells – but only when actually attached to cows, grazing; Distant church bells; The call of the Whippoorwill; A screaming GXXR Oh, and ditto on the powdery fresh snow, low-altitude pass of a fighter jet, and gurgling water in a mountain stream, per up posts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-sounds-in-the-world/504766.md?page=3)