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<p>[quote user="maxman"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">bnsf1</div> <div class="quote-content">There's a potential downside in putting sound in all locomotives, but it may mean lower costs through economy of scale. As for those who don't want it, I believe most decoders use F8 as a mute.</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Again I'm afraid I have to disagree.  You are now breaking down to market into three groups:  those who are happy with sound;  those who like DCC but don't want sound; and those who neither want sound or DCC.</p> <p>I don't believe that the manufacturers are going to sell the sound locos cheaper to subsidize non-sound DCC or non-DCC locos.  So that makes the sound lovers unhappy because they don't want to pay an additional $90 per loco.</p> <p>Then the DCC non-sound folks are unhappy because they don't want to pay the difference between the sound decoder price and the non-sound decoder price.  Yes they can press F8, but why should they have to?</p> <p>And the non-DCC folks are unhappy because they view the addition of any decoder as jacking the price up unnecessarily, and then they have to rip the decoder out anyway.</p> <p>So, what is the manufacturer to do?</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>I think you meant to reply to someone else.</p> <p>My original post questioned whether or not the cost of sound decoders would be reduced if all models with decoders installed had them instead of non-sound.</p> <p>It didn't involve DCC vs DC.</p>
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