A lot of what "sounds good" comes down to what a person grew up seeing/hearing and subsequently associating with what "good" is supposed to sounds like, according the prevailing social consensus.
Classic example is here in North America, most folks find the typical American V8 pleasing to the ear. The rumble is due mostly to its firing order that is uneven between the two banks.
However, for me personally, I've never been too keen on the American muscle car genre. Up until very recently, most of them were all engine, with shitty brakes and crappy suspensions that couldn't handle corners worth a darn. The latest Camaro and Mustangs have become much more well-rounded driver's cars, but I still associate the V8 rumble with Detroit pig iron of the 70's and '80s. I was much more into Euro sports cars that emphasize handling as much as - if not more than - HP. So those cars were what I grew up drooling over.
I was also into sportbikes in a huge way, which for the longest time was dominated by Japanese inline 4 cylinder with 180deg flat crank and even firing order. That high-pitch wail of an inline4, shrieking past 12,000RPM has forever etched in my head as what pure performance sounds like. In fact, the latest Corvette C8 Z06 V8 is essentially two flat-crank inline4's sharing a common output shaft. It sounds closer to a Ferrari V8 than the traditional Detroit muscle car V8. I always find it amusing when youtube reviewers that used to trash-talk "4-bangers" and "4-poppers" all-of-a-sudden started singing praise for the new Corvette's shrieking V8.
At the end if the day, it's all subjective.
so it's not a v6 tt issue necessarily...
