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[quote user="joe-daddy"]<p>>>> snip <<<<</p><p> I have owned three Tsunami's. None of them produced sound you could hear if any other locomotive with sound was running. I have tried different speakers baffles and thought I would twist off the screws on the CV's if I adjusted them any more.</p><p>Others have said the same about this decoder. I am interested in seeing how Bachmann gets decent sound out of this product. I have a hunch that it is all speaker related. My QSI locomotives are so loud that I have to turn them down to stay in the room with them. </p><p>>>> snip <<<< </p><p>My 0-6-0 with Tsunami has the most set of sounds of all my locomotives. I have to run it by itself though, just to hear it.</p>>>> snip <<<<<br /><p> Joe</p><p> </p><p>[/quote]</p><p> </p><p>Strange -- I've got a light, a medium, and four heavy Tsunamis, and I installed all of them. I was rather disappointed with the first heavy, as it wasn't very loud, especially the whistle, until I realized one of the solder joints onto the speaker was bad. Once fixed, it was much better.</p><p>Some of this may be expectations, and yes, comparisons with the QSIs. They are far too loud out of the box, much louder than the Tsunamis, at least in my installations. And there are often 2 speakers in factory QSI installationis, often both larger than the single speaker most of us have with Tsunamis. All but one of my Tsunamis are in Bachmann engines, a 2-8-0 and four 4-8-2s, and all have 1.1" round speakers mounted under the coal load. I got most of the speakers from Tony's, and two from Litchfield. </p><p>But I often have 2 or 3 Tsunamis running, along with some QSI diesels or SoundTraxx LCs in diesels, and I can hear them all clearly. I suppose it may also have to do with the size and acoustics of the train room, and I agree that the speaker and installation are probably more likely. Perhaps I was just lucky, but Tsunamis work great for me -- I'm just hoping the diesels appear in my lifetime! </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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