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Thanks, gentlemen. No, my reading is up to date.  I guess you would have to see what I am running to believe it. As indicated in my orginal post, it is not a turnout contact issue in the ordinary sense.  When one sound car and one loco are running, there is no drop out.  When I run two soundcars with two locos consisted, that means I am drawing power for 8 large speakers at a volume you perhaps have not heard from a retail sound loco.  Moreover, the decoders all have stay alive capacitors.  No, I think you would have to witness it to understand it.  The decoders are drawing a great deal of power, and a little hiccup over the turnouts is overwhelming the stay alive capacitors and system power to keep from dropping out the current.  One sound car, one loco, full volume....not problem.  One loco one regular Tsunami or QSI decoder....no problem.  Two locos and 8 speakers with full dynamic range of the larger 16 bit soundfiles, and there is drop out.  So a power booster would not help though? Thanks
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