What camera do you think has the sweetest shutter sound

Not sure why I read to page 3 but anyway... frankly no idea. The two most memorable so far are the near-silent click of the Compur shutter in my friend's old pre-war Bessa 6x9, to the opposite end of the scale in a Kodak EK8 instant RF, which was a massive crunch followed by much mechanical noise, a bit like someone starting a chainsaw, as it did its thing. I should have videoed it before I sold it! I thin you would hope for a fast enough exposure before the subject flinched.

Okay, Konica S, discreet click much like to Bessa.
 
The Polaroid talking camera, of course!
"Don't say Cheddar, say CHEESE!".

Jokes aside. I really like the very impractical shutter sound of my Pentax 67 even if it sounds somewhat like dropping a brick on a pile of cans. Also my M4-P at slower shutter speeds, like polished marble on silk sheets.

Least favorite it the Canon EOS, particularly in live mode.
 
My 1986 M6 .72 makes the sweetest, most well-damped sound of my all my cameras. It's less noticeable than my M3, M2, IIIf and III. And briefer than OM-1, FE-2, Contax II and Blad. And yes, that does add to my pleasure of using it.
 
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it makes a cat noise when you trip the shutter to attract a photographer's most fav subject matter.

most sexiest sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzcJ2-VzHdA
 
I don't know how I ended up here because I really never even listen to the sound of my shutter while I am shooting photos. A Rolleiflex and a Zeiss Super Ikonta III and IV and others that have the quiet click of the Synchro-Compur shutters. My Leica M4 has a nice quiet sound. I had a Leica MP for awhile and while it was nice and quiet it was much the same as my other Leica M cameras. - jim
 
Do Packards count? Where the "bulb" setting is a real bulb. Not exactly sweet sounding, but somewhat intimidating, especially the big ones.
 
Leica M3 - any other response is blasphemy. :)

On the other end of the scale, the Fujicom ST705W and related cameras, as good as they are, are the only cameras I know of that have a reverb after pulling the shutter....
 
From the ones I own, the Leica M4-P is the smoothest operator. The worst one is my Ikonta 521/A, being noisy and so hard to press that handheld photography longer than 1/25s is impossible.
 
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