Noise reduction.

[Steve30]

I had Bridgestone Potenzas on an old Civic a few years ago, and the road noise from them was dreadful. 
My Golf has Dunlop Sport Maxx GT's - and I can't really fault them so far.  I'm sure there are better tyres out there, but the GT gets great reviews.

So you feel that the Dunlops are reasonably quiet even on rough tarmac?

Not so sure about that? I have dunlops on mine and on rough tarmac they are bit noisy, but then I have the Dynaudio. The bridgestones are noisy though I also had them on the Type R  !!

[denyason]

try some noise cancelling headphones.  all the rage these days.  you won't hear a thing, not a whisker, not a sound, not a beep, nothing, nothing at all.  you may aswell be asleep.   goodnight!

[R32UK]

try some noise cancelling headphones.  all the rage these days.  you won't hear a thing, not a whisker, not a sound, not a beep, nothing, nothing at all.  you may aswell be asleep.   goodnight!

They dont cancel out all sound, but are much better at reducing low frequencey noises such airplane engine noise, tyre drone etc. Wear them whilst driving to also look like a prize idiot

[JonnyG]

So you feel that the Dunlops are reasonably quiet even on rough tarmac?

There's two Dunlops Sportmaxx's out there now and they are different, so be careful when reading people's comments.

The standard ones came as OEM on the Mk 5 R32 and have not had great reviews, particularly as they get down to the last 4mm or less.  Mine got very nosiy and wore unevenly across the tread.

The new GT ones that come on the new MK 6 R  - these seem a lot better in all respects from both reviews and reports.  So far I've found them to be excellent but reserve judgement until they've worn down to 4mm or less.

[R32UK]

had my front and back dunlops swapped over recently. the tyre guy showed severe uneven wearing across one of the tyres!! not the first time.. and probably not the last.

a poor tyre imo

[Hartside]

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[am1w]

I thought we were discussing noise reduction, not tyre wear.