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<p>[quote user="richhotrain"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">rrinker</div> <div class="quote-content">  <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">richhotrain</div> <div class="quote-content"> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">tstage</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p>New or used, Rich...Makes no difference to me.  If it's a good switcher; it gets a TCS decoder.  I want a switcher to excel at slow switching and TCS gives me that.  But that's just me...</p> <p>Tom </p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Yeah, but $36.50 for a non-sound decoder versus $20 ??? </p> <p>A used switcher??</p> <p>Rich </p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Almost every one of my locos is 'used' - I've oonly puchased a few as brand new. Just because that Stewart/Bowser Baldwin switcher only cost me $40 does not mean I am going to cheap out and get a junky decoder - they run too well to compromise the performance like that.</p> <p> And if I want to put sound in any of them (besides the one I ALREADY bought a sound chassis for), they're getting Loksound. Just because it was used doesn't mean I'm going to put in a cheap MRC decoder. I have standards, you know <img style="display:inline;" alt="Big Smile" /></p> <p> I may also try Lokpilots, that way the non-sound will have the same drive as the sound ones.</p> <p>                        --Randy </p> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>So, what are we saying?</p> <p> </p> <p>If you need a non-sound decoder, spend $40 for a TCS?  Period.</p> <p>If you need a sound decoder, it begins and ends with Loksound?</p> <p>Aren't we doing a disservice to newbies and to modelers on a budget?</p> <p>Too much bias and misdirection here. </p> <p>I'm not directing this at you, Randy, but to the herd instinct on this forum when it comes to decoder selection.</p> <p>Rich</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Every one of my P2K Alco S1 switchers get an TCS MC2 (some of which are used, some where NIB).   1st off because it fits well (about the size of a dime), secondly because it has excellent motor control.   </p> <p>I use Loksound or TCS, it depends on what will fit.  I prefer TCS due to audio assist, but I wont rip out a loksound if it came with one.  Soundtrax Tsunami (1 not 2, I have no experience with the latter) and sound value decoders come out when I have the $$ to upgrade.  Soundtraxx Tsunami is the ALCO 244 of my railroad.  Ive gotten to the point were I will not order/purchase a DCC sound Athern Genesis locomotive anymore, I'll just get the DC version and put in the decoder and speaker I want.</p>
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