Quote Originally Posted by Ape Factory View Post
Honestly the AWE with their resonated downpipes are loud enough at WOT to get you arrested and zero drone. No valves to fail, just sounds great all the time no matter what mode you’re in. The same exhaust with non-res, aka track extreme, as others have said is super exotic sounding but just not livable day in and day out. The resonates downpiipes simply move the volume and sound from like its coming from underneath you to out the back at the tailpipes. The tone is the same.

Money no object, it’d be the Akra but just due to the weight savings. If the JHM system proves to outperform a 2.5” system across the rev range, that’s be my choice although from early reports it would probably be too loud (for me).
To each their own, but the JHM system isn’t louder than the AWE system, I had the touring setup and non res pipes on my S5. Different car, I know, but the JHM system really suits the car.

I in no way stand to benefit from other people going JHM (I also think the Velocity is amazing) BUT I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed by going another direction, waiting for data. I do understand the desire for performance figures, but look at JHMs track record and the performance they got out of the RS4’s 2.75” system by itself. I believe them when they say if you want the best performing exhaust system, this is it. My gut says with their tune and exhaust we’ll see 1/4 mile figures in the high 11’s. I don’t have a video of it, but I was able to pull away from a 50km rolling start against my brothers E92 M3, which is almost unheard of unless we were at a stand still.