I've always heard good things about the L1011 but I'll tell you, I got the biggest shock of my life once from one! I was on an early TWA from STL to LAX in the mid 90s and my plane had cold engines - so I got to witness a really cold start - I've never SEEN such a cloud of oil smoke - if you've ever lost a complete piston ring and can't see the road behind you for the smoke, well, it was THAT bad from ALL three engines as they came online. Soon enough the excess oil was burned off and it got up to operating temperature, and the engines had that nice whine. I had always wondered why 1011s were do dingy near the #2 engine, and then I knew!
-drl