Tires with an aggressive tread pattern tend to make more road noise than tires with a smaller, less aggressive tread pattern.
Tires noise is typically a whining or howling sound that increases in volume the faster you go. You will also hear the sound change on different textured pavement. Listen carefully when you see the road changing from old pavement to new pavement or changes from concrete to asphalt, etc since that is when the sound will change.
On my Mercedes, it rides very quiet with no tire noise except for one stretch of I-35 where there is a high pitched whine that is very irritating. I can't blame the tires because on all the roads I drove from Texas to Ohio, they were quiet except for that one section of I-35, and I know now that it is something in the surface texture that is causing it ??
...Rich