Favorite Sounds

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Oooooo. Good one!

Thunder
Rain
The phaser sound effect
Guitar voiceboxes (Peter Frampton, anyone?)
Bass lines
Sitars
Harmonicas
Didgeridoos
Bears roaring
Owls hooting
The sound effects the Transformers make in Michael Bay's movies
The sound the tripods make on War of The Worlds (2005)
The ray gun on Call of Duty
Various epic orchestral music (the perfect partner for my imagination )
Various synthesizer parts on 80's records

the sound of a wurlitzer theatrical pipe organ in full cry, as well as the chorusing of the vox humani pipes and the ppp on the soft tibias. the tremulants up close shake the air in a most appealing way. the sound of the wurlitzer "toy counter" percussions/special effects, especially the mellow zylos and crisp snapping snares and shimmering scintillating cymbals. the pants-flapping air-shaking subterranean bass on the 16'/32' bourdon pipes especially when heterodyned.
the dull mellow roar of the furnace going on at night, fills a hole in my soul.
the ripping-yet-refined french-horney exhaust note of a V-12 XKE jaguar automobile.
a contrabass french horn [one of a kind on YouTube], so stentorian yet mellow and deep.
antiphonal organ pipes speaking at each other in a large cathedral.
the masculine-but-refined purr of the 472 cu. in. V-8 exhaust in a 1970 cadillac sedan de ville.
the sound of randy types enjoying le petit mort, the sounds of whoopie in general
the soft contented quacking/murmuring of ducks being fed
the deep insistent purr of a contented kitty being scratched just so
the unearthly long, dense reverberation inside the taj mahal [heard on a paul horn bass flute recording]
the piccolo trumpet fanfare at the end of the european version of "penny lane"
too many other favorite sounds to list here.

Oooh, I've not thought about that for years but I went all shivery and remembered it immediately as I read that line. Dead good!

I guess I like most of what's already been posted - but in general small, detailed clicky or ticky sounds - a small, ticking clock is a symphony of rhythm and tiny detail - or huge, body-shaking sounds like rolling thunder, when it's experienced outside in a wide open space.

And, unsurprisingly for me - a very large organ in full flight, especially the full-throated roar of a French organ or one built in the French style of voicing with their huge reed sounds and massive chorus. The kind of sound that stops you in your tracks and flattens you against a wall.
One stop does it perfectly: a 32' Contre-Bombarde, and the name itself speaks the sheer power of this stop.
As in this magnificent beast:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsDk77nBwg&feature=related[/youtube](but this sort of thing really needs to be experienced live to get the air-trembling, stone-shaking depth of it)

Lets start here.
some people risk to employ me, some people live to destroy me!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYlUe-SDqA0[/youtube]

I like the sound of good music. The Kinks, Beatles, Who, Stones, Jimi Hendrix, CCR, Guess Who, Chicago, Bee Gees, Mamas & The Papas and the list goes on and on.

Merlin Engines!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95tD9iZKkc&feature=related[/youtube]

Triumph Trident Engines!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMtXyQQZhog[/youtube]

Ooh, ooh I'd forgotten about that!
Just beautiful.

Excellent bike, excellent noise!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0PkjMDEXSQ[/youtube]

A 500,000-volt breaker arcing (listen for the echo at the end!)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GiIVze2Tac[/youtube]
"Igor, launch the kites!".

Awesome!

Yeah! Now that's what I call a big sound.

Given the our propensity for sensory issues, I'm surprised how many of us like big sounds. Maybe because those sounds overwhelm all the other ones?

Allthough they are as you say, big sounds, they are not sudden bangs, they are all complicated collections of individual sounds compressed into one big noise that maybe the aspie brain can detect the rythymn too?
The sound of an electric guitar with its rich vibrations joining into one, the individual exaust pulse of each cylinder of a merlin engine, in perfect harmony with its 23 neighbours,

I have listened to the radio (mostly news BBC PBS) constantly since the late 60's. When I go out (seldom) I have a small Sangean (my friend) whispering through earphones. And when I go to sleep the radio is talking away.

I'm not surprised. It's not the volume. It's the type. Some sounds are just annoying.