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[quote user="cudaken"] Have any of you that said rip the decoder out talked with Athearn? After dropping $340.00 on a engine that is 2 weeks old I am not in a hurry to take it apart. Couple of questions. 1 What would a Tsunami Heavy Steam decoder cost me APX.[/quote] $95.95 from Tony's (and most others) [url]http://tonystrains.com/products/soundtraxx_tsunami.htm[/url]   [quote]  2 Will the Tsunami Heavy Steam make radom sounds like the MRC and what options in sound does it have like whisel and chuff sounds. One of the things I like the best is the rail sounds and radom sounds that and it is a B B.[/quote] You've clearly not had the chance to play with a Tsunami.  Random sounds?  Yes.  Plus, you can even set the probability of each of 8 random sounds occuring, such as Fireman Fred shoveling coal, using a socket wrench, using a grease gun, or the pop valve blowing.The Heavy has 6 whistle options.  Plus a separate function that can be either an alternate whistle or a "short whistle" function.  There are 21 separate volume control CVs (including of course each of those 8 random sounds), plus an overall volume control. For chuff sounds, there are several adjustments, including of course separate volume, rate, how much it decreases when not under load (like coasting downhill).There's side rod clank (adjustable, of course), brake squeal, etc., etc.One of my favorites is the braking function -- if you are running at speed and quickly set the speed to zero (and have a fair size value in CV 4 for deceleration rate), the engine will gradually slow and stop, as with any decoder.  But if you press the function key assigned to braking, you'll get both the brake squeal and a more rapid deceleration (also adjustable, of course).  [quote]  3 Depending on the cost of the Tsunami Heavy Steam decoder would I be better off going with PCM? I am 85% sure I can get a refund on the athearn.                                  Cuda Ken[/quote] Does the PCM come with LokSound?   A few prefer it to the Tsunami, but there have been very, very few posts by people who have anything bad to say about a Tsunami.  Take a look at the Tsunami Steam User's Guide (and the list of CVs on page 72) at  [url]http://www.soundtraxx.com/documents/manuals/tsunamisteam_users_guide.pdf[/url]Or look at an early review, of the Beta version (several improvements were made in the production version) at [url]http://tonystrains.com/technews/tsunami-review-070105.htm[/url]
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