Okay, Landsteiner.
"Whereas TMCC was designed so that the power and command signal were independent, so existing layouts could be easily and relatively inexpensively adapted to the new system, compared with DCC."
Just curious but what does keeping the power and the signal separate have to do with adapting the system to a layout?
"decent quality sound (also not available for DCC 25-30 years ago)"
Not true. 18 years ago I had Soundtraxx sound only decoders and back then they were old tech. Originally they were released in 1998. The sound wasn't great but I would say it was decent.
https://soundtraxx.com/history/
I am not going to argue about this but I never liked TMCC and DCS due to the many, many signal problems I experienced. If you love TMCC and it works for you then I am happy for you. It didn't work for me. I just wish that Niel and Dick would have come up with a better system.
Heck, I remember an article in OGR where a guy was having so many signal problems he actually mounted antennas on top of all his locomotives. It looked ugly but he got the system to work for him. Maybe that isn't the norm but to me it speaks volumes.
