I’ll start: I love listening to the washing machine running. Relaxing, sounds like hard work I don’t have to do. Looking forward to the clean clothes and nice smell! Sewing machine sound makes me all giddy. Sound of my 1988 car engine.
I find chain saws and brushcutters extremely annoying. On some days in spring and autumn I can get quite grumpy about it, even though I rationally know they also save a lot of hard work.
I love the clickity clack of old IBM Model M keyboards. Typewriters’ typing sound is also oddly relaxing to me, the *ding* on a new line carry was lovely, too.
I spilt wine into my M. Sad times
I can’t say there are any machine noises I enjoy. If there was a way to have everything be silent I think that’d be great :3
I love the sound of old harddrives. At least the ones that have some low grumbling and clicking, not the ones with a high-pitched whine due to failing bearings.
The sound of old tapedecks and reel-to-reels is also pretty nice.
And the sound a Zippo makes when you open and close it.
I love the sound of plenty of older performance engines such as an RB25 or RB26, 2JZ, 13b, old Ferrari V8s like in the F40.
A lot of the newer performance engines with these fast shifting auto boxes just sound like wet farts and have “pops and bangs” programmed into the ECU just sound like shit to me.
I know a lot of people hate loud cars but these 90s / 00s performance engines literally throw chills up my spine ans bring a tear to my eye sometimes. Just pushes some visceral button inside me.
The modern sports cars sound horrible.
Car wash. I could fall asleep to that
Sound of Inline 4 motorcycle sport bike. Not the high rake supersport with loud aftermarket pipe, but the stock pipe on a comfort sport bike.
It burbles like a purring cat when idling, and comes to life when accelerating; with a mix of high revving engine, the intake and exhaust noise, the transmission whine, and the subtle tinkle noise of the chain going over the sprockets. Its like a beautiful cacophony.
I hate gas leafblowers, those should have to be electric only.
Old slow gas and steam engines where you can hear every click and pop. https://youtu.be/eChBqGajIyo
Industrial music is an actual thing, with many subgenres ranging from “literally just a washing machine whirring rhythmically” all the way to “EDM with banging noises”.
Einsturzende Neubauten for the win.
I like my clacky keyboard.
I also love the klangs of spaceships banging into shit in space games.
The 60hz hum that some things emit for some reason to do with AC
I like when my toaster pops to release the toast
At work we have a little thingy for digitizing 8mm/super8 film reels. It’s kinda janky, doesn’t actually play the reels at normal intended speeds or even at all really, in a sense. Rather, it takes a picture of each individual frame and then turns them into a video. I’ve been told by purists that this is far from ideal.
However!
The advancing film mechanism makes this incredibly satisfying rhythmic “ka chunk, ka chunk, ka chunk” noise that I reallllyyyyy enjoy. Check it out: https://loops.video/v/g53y-EtF-C
Diesel engines drive me up the damn wall
Best: Tractor engine idling. It’s a nice consistent low rumble that you can feel in the ground even when it’s not that loud. Like being rocked to sleep.
Worst: Somebody building a deck or house nearby. Just when you think the random hammers and nail-guns might be over the racket starts up again. Impossible to sleep through.
