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<p>[quote user="BRAKIE"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">bnsf1</div> <div class="quote-content">Would sound be cheaper if all decoder equipped units had a sound decoder?</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>No.. A good example would be Athearn's RTR SD40-2 that is DCC ready versus the RTR DCC/Sound equipped SD40-2.</p> <p>RTR DCC Ready is $134.98</p> <p>DCC/Sound is 184.98.</p> <p>The manufacturer will charge you for that DCC/Sound decoder and at  extra cost for installing it. Somebody will be paid to install that decoder.Labor is passed on to the end consumer.</p> <p>The prices wil go up not down especially if the manufacturer of the  dcc/sound decoder keeps jacking his price due to supply and demand..</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>Of course they'll charge for supplying and installing it. They also charge more for supplying a model that's already assembled than a box of parts.</p> <p>Actually, paying an extra $50 for an installed decoder, sound or not, seems pretty reasonable.</p> <p>If the only installed decoder they offer is one with sound, that would seem to lend weight to the assumption that this is the way things are headed.</p> <p>If that's true, it also suggests that manufacturers are finding it more cost-effective to go this route.</p> <p>If the buyer doesn't want sound, they still have the option of no decoder.</p>
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