I am out of my league here in this forum, but at the Indi BMW shop I once worked in, we would often remove the resonator from the exhaust system on the v8 powered vehicles. Left them with a great low grumble that would encourage judicious use of skinny pedal while remaining civilized when necessary.
Again, leaving the oem cats, and stock muffler intact, only removing a small "can" from the system and replacing with a piece of pipe, produced a more satisfying tone than most aftermarket mufflers alone on the bimmers.
Does the GX have anything like this toward the rear of the vehicle, near the muffler?
yes we do. but i thought that took a way some of the drone and resonance... that is one thing i want to avoid is resonance at specific RPM ranges... i guess i could always put it back if i wanted. but the other thing is i was thinking about going to 2.5" pipe cat-back, and then going with 3" axle back like i had on my old 4runner.