I could be wrong, but I can't see how there can be much expense in specifying which sound set gets loaded onto a chip. I would think the expense from sound would be all the time and work of recording, editing, and producing the sound files. I guess what I can't see is why, when better and more accurate sound files have already been made, more generic files would be chosen and stuck in locomotives. For instance, the 2008 release of the Legacy GS-4 steamer had a whistle clearly recorded from the real 4449 excursion steam locomotive. Yet the 2016 updated version of the locomotive I personally own has a generic SP whistle (a good whistle nonetheless, but not as accurate as the real one). Why would they use a generic one when they already went to the trouble of recording the real one?
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