The ALCO 244 and De La Vergne 8-(Baldwin VO 1000) had a very distinctive "thud" sound from the cylinders at idle. I think the Titan nailed this aspect.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Erik, solely at face value, the Tsunami has a more accurate and realistic/bassy prime mover sound than the Titan. However, if you actually did any 'notching', the Titan wins hands down as far as replicating the notching incremental sounds. I only listened for about four swaps back and forth, and that is my judgement.
Crandell
Confusing is right. I still don't know what to choose for the locos I need to equip. I'm almost tempted to buy both a Titan and Tsunami and test it out for myself.
Too bad all the people that have viewed this thread haven't replied as to what they think sounds best in Erik's video.
I have installed quite a few QSI's and also tsunami's but only one Titan, which was installed in my Baldwin AS616 with twin mini-ovals. The sound is superb and control is just as excellent. Up until this video I thought the QSI 244 was terrible, but if this is the new 244 sound that's what I'll buy. (I'm not impressed with thier old 251 either). I will freely admit that the Tsunami prime movers are excellent, but control along with the other bells and whistles, to me anyway, QSI has it. The 251, 244, and 539 are disapointing to me. On the other hand I have some RS27's and a RSD17 (251's) that have excellents sounds, confusing?
Den.
I think that sensation of more bass is just that. The Tsunami sound really flat, without much details, and a lot of 'whoosh' sound, whereas the Titan has nice and clear sounds, you can actually hear the difference between sounds coming from the diesel engine as opposed to sounds from the other machinery.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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I'm interested in what more people think as well. While I thought The Titan had a much better horn and more detail, I liked the overall sound of the Tsunami better, mainly because I thought it had a deeper sound with better bass.
Here is a quote about this from another thread I posted.
"The main reason I thought the Tsunami sounded better in Erik's video comparison is it had much lower frequencies than the Titan. And since low frequencies in tiny speakers are hard to get, that was the main thing I noticed different in the comparison. Although Erik said he used the same speakers in each unit, we don't know anything about his speaker installation methods, and that could be critical. It's too bad he couldn't have used the same loco's with the same speaker installation."
For those interested, I've posted a comparson video of a SoundTraxx Tsunami and Titan [Beta testing] ALCO 244.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHI_4wfbUKA
I'm aware that the ALCO 244 was not used in either the RS-1 or RS-11. The video and decoder installation is for demonstrative and testing purposes only.
Each decoder has two 35x16.2 mm speakers with enclosures firing down thru the trucks. Your feed back and discussion is appreciated.
Erik Fiske
I couldn't fix your brakes, so I made your horn louder