I may have bad wheel bearing, do you agree?

Could be lots of things. You can jack up each wheel and spin it by hand, you will feel/hear a bad bearing pretty easily, and there might be some play there too.

I would first suspect tire wear, though. Try rotating them and see if it changes.

I just purchased new tires and had the front end aligned. The sound was there before and still now.

TurDonor said:

Could be lots of things. You can jack up each wheel and spin it by hand, you will feel/hear a bad bearing pretty easily, and there might be some play there too.

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+1! This is the easiest way to diagnose a wheel bearing issue.

Sounds like a bad wheel bearing. My Civic made the same noise a few months ago and when you spun the wheel you could hear the same noise. It's not an emergency item to replace but it will make more noise as it deteriorates.

Yep, I would say bad hub assembly... it's not just a wheel bearing, it's all one piece. Mine went around 40K and I don't wheel mine either. Typically if you turn right and it gets loud, it's the left one.

As previously mentioned, jack up the front and spin the wheel. If it's real bad, you'll know it. I had one go bad on my wife's Pontiac and I couldn't tell which one it was. My son has one bad right now on his ZR2 and there is no question which one it was when I spun the wheels. On his, $90 for an aftermarket (1 year warranty), $160 for a Timkin brand. Not a terrible job to replace one, at least on a ZR2, my Tacoma was under waranty.