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[quote user="BRAKIE"]   <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">bnsf1</div> <div class="quote-content">As for those who don't want it, I believe most decoders use F8 as a mute.</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div>   And they pay for a item they do not want? Ever wonder why there is DCC Ready,DCC equipped  and DCC/Sound? That fills the current market requirements. BTW.History does repeat its self.. This same discussion was debated on the old Atlas forum except it was for DCC equipped locomotives. And we still have DCC ready locomotives. <div style="clear:both;"> </div> [/quote]   Unfortunatley, this post has gone in a direction that's a long way from the original. The whole point was, would sound be cheaper if manufacturers selling decoder equipped models used sound decoders in all of them? It had nothing to do with forcing anyone to take anything they don't want. It had to do with being able to negotiate a better price per unit with a larger order. For those with no interest in sound, they could offer models with a plug and the modeler could do what they want. That's what Atlas has done with the models I mentioned. You have two choices, with a decoder and without. But, if you get the decoder installed, it has sound. Obviously they could have offered the models with no decoder, a standard decoder and a sound decoder. They didn't. I doubt it's because the idea didn't occur to them. I'm sure that was a marketing decision that took the costs of offering each possibility into account. Which brings us back to the original post. Would sound be cheaper if all deocder equipped units had a sound decoder? They may have already given us the answer with that model.
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