I guess it's all what you want and like. I bought a very nice, bone stock 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Pickup truck with Cherry Bomb glass packs and the same 3" chrome tips you have coming out the middle of the rear. The tips looked way out of place and the sound was painful. My 1972 Cutlass came with series 40 Flowmasters, and it was way too loud to carry on a conversation or listen to the radio. I switched them both to stock type free flowing muffler, as jmt said, as long as will fit under the car. When I redid my Bonneville in the early 90s, I used the stock type free flowing mufflers, but eliminated the resonators. It too droned on and was real "cool" at first, but after the drone caused a headache ever time I drove more than 15 minutes, I returned to the exhaust shop to have the resonators installed. Now you only really hear it when you're on it.
None of these cars were overly loud when they were new and they still sounded just fine when you opened the secondaries.
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