Neat Sound System!!

[Anonymous]

I model in N scale and am NOT dcc. I saw a sound system at GATS in Little Rock and bought it. It is called a MaxxTraxx.. It comes with a small speaker that you can mount under the track, and sounded really neat at the train show. I brought it home and started playing with it. It uses an 8 ohm speaker and I thought to myself, Self, what has a close impedance that would work as a speaketr system? The lightbulb went off and I thought of the powered sound system for a computer (with subwoofer, of course. I wired it in mono and added a 10 ohm resister in series with it to keep the magic box happy. It is AWESOME!!! I cannot turn it up all the way and stay in the same room with it!! It shakes the walls, rattles the windows, and scared the heck out of my wife when she heard a Mallet running through the attic, complete with the doppler effect of the whistle!! Great fun. I am getting the diesel version for my birthday!!!

[pondman]

Great idea you had there ..When I'm not running my N-Scale train .I'am on the old PC running (mts) with 140 watts of power in the surrond speaker system 5-1 .........Would love to have a CD with a train sound on it to play as i run my N...Sure makes it sound like you right at the train yard ............................P.S. my wife does like the sound !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bye wife see you ................................

[Anonymous]

That's essentially what I have under the layout, speakerwise. The sound system senses the current draw of the locomotive and synchs up with the speed. Of course, you have to set up each loco individually when you run it, but that is really easy to do. It is really cool when I start out a long train and can hear the slack coming out of the couplers for the whole length of the train. It also has sounds you can trigger when it is standing still, such as loading coal, greasing the rods, taking on water, and when you pull into a station, you can trigger an arrival sequence with announcements, baggage unloading, and the departure from the station. Neat. The unit is made by QSL and has actual recorded sounds stored on a memory chip. The whole thing is controlled by three buttons.