You have to realize, though, that the cheaper SoundTraxx decoders are very old style and some of them had poor motor control circuitry, so it's a case of, 'You get what you pay for.' The DSX decoder is sound only and you need an additional decoder for motor/lights.
Tsunami is the new and improved SoundTraxx decoder, and anything less is not worth the cost differential.
What Mr. B said...
They've got some Soundtraxx DSD's on Ebay for under $60.http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&dfsp=32&catref=C6&from=R4&satitle=soundtraxx&sacat=220%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=32%26fsoo%3D2Scroll down to the store listings at the bottom.
The Soundbug itself is still at the regular price of $50. Read carefully. The lower-priced decoders have Soundbug sockets on them. They are motor-only units that will accept the soundbug plug-in, but don't have sound themselves.
Dang. I got excited for a while.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Looking at the sale items in this month's Walthers sale catalog, I see the Digitrax Sound bug advertised for 25 bucks while the MRC units are all over $60 bucks.
Why the fire sale on Digitrax?
Joe Daddy