With all the complaints throughout the years.....I’m really surprised and not at the same time Lionel will not let us choose our sound files. With this current generation of electronics its possible to re-flash the soundboard. I have had to see so many customers at our dealer return their Legacy Lionel locomotives throughout the years because of the sounds that were chosen for that model were terrible.
I work on all the scales Z-G and installed various forms of after market sound systems in DCC. All sound decoders that are available from Soundtraxx, TCS, ESU, MRC, DigiTraxx are completely customize-able in function and sound types and volumes. TCS’s WowSounds Steam decoder has like 70 different whistles you can choose from that are actual recordings.
ESU has the best recordings of diesel prime movers you can get. They have around 4-5 different recordings for a 567 prime mover. I don’t even want get into the programing capabilities to customize the decoder function and individual sounds.... At least from MTH you can email them and they can send you a modified sound file.
Lionel was well know for their railsounds back in the day compared to all the scales and to be honest the only thing they have going for them today is the manually quill-able whistle/horn feature that's integrated into their remotes.
Lionel could make easy money off the programmer/program to upgrade the individual files. They could focus on more individual and prototypical sound files/recordings. Heck they could even partner with one of the Decoder manufactures I mentioned above.
They could even sell those sound files individually to us so they could make money off their hard work properly providing us with the correct sound recordings and bells.
Of course you’ll have people (the consumer) that wont be able to handle the complexity of this. But that's why you have service stations and private individuals that can do these things for them. I’m not slamming Lionel, I just want them to be the best they can be.
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