The only problem with the new sound is when I cast totemic recall on my shammies.

Used to be this nice little *whoosh* and all your totems disappear.

I logged on my 70 shammy to do a couple AV's this weekend and I'm like... "well, better clean up these totems and move on", and it was like this giant WHRRRAORSAEAASDASHSHHHHH!

I just so happened to be wearing my headset (since I wanted to try out voice chat too -- nobody uses the damn thing) and I nearly blew out my ears. Don't know why - for some reason that one spell has a billion times the volume of any other in game sound.

Apparently they're fixing "spell sounds" in the mini-patch before 2.3. I hope they noticed totemic recall.