How noisy (or quiet) your car is

Saturn: A reviewer said that you had to pack Advil to drive it. They were right: the engine was buzzy to a fault and on the highway wind noise was high.

Taurus: Pretty quiet unless you were revving the nuts off of it, which I didn't do particularly often.

Escort: We shall seem, the exhaust is being repaired as the seller is getting the car inspected for another year.
 
Smartphones aren't good for measuring sound levels as every kind has a different microphone in it, not to mention there's automatic gain.

This is not the worst part. When you talk to someone else on the phone, they can hear you crystal clear. When you try using the sound recorder app (for which there's no actual shortcut on the default Android), the recording comes out noisy and gainy. Something's up with the microphones, there.
 
The microphone is calibrated to only pick up sounds from very close to it and in the usual human voice frequency range. If you want to record something that's farther away, you have to boost the signal a lot, which creates noise.
 
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