To me, there is nothing that says “Power” more than a full afterburner takeoff!
When I served on a carrier, I used to see F-14 Tomcats take off in full afterburner, and even got caught behind a jet blast deflector (JBD) once (NOT FUN) when one went off.
But boy, if you love loud, powerful, ground shaking things, afterburners do that for me!
I lived at Subic Bay
On Sunday mornings at about 7:00, the A-7’s I think, would take off to rejoin their carrier at sea
they would get off the Cubi Point runway to right above my house and turn vertical with full power, zooming straight up. The house shook from the mighty blasts of power. The story was it was illegal, but hey....... they were going back to Vietnam