Rusty: Couldn't agree more: tenders are for water and coal, the sound comes from the stack!
PBL makes a nifty round speaker you can use with the Tsunami. IMHO it is better than the stock speaker and in some cases can be stuck to the front of an existing weight with double-stick carpet tape. If you use LokSound (100 ohm), they make a couple larger round speakers also. I have one in the front of an SP 2-10-2, sounds pretty good after I milled out the stack and the stack's hole in the boiler. I managed to fit a rectangular bass reflex speaker at a 45 degree angle in the Niagara's boiler front - big time great sound!! Rusty, you still need to spend a day with us at DPV! JIm K. --- In [email protected], "thebrassbasher" <thebrassbas...@...> wrote: > > I installed a Tsunami in my Reading 2-8-0 and at first placed the speaker in the tender. I > noticed right away that I could tell the sound was no right. It was okay if I was many feet > away but not up close. I have since replaced the tender speaker with a boiler weight/speaker enclosure. I and am now building more boiler weight/speaker enclosures. I've posted photos > of two of them in the photos album at: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S- Scale/photos/album/965792248/pic/list > > which is Rustys models. The Reading 2-8-0 sounds a lot better now. I make up a brass tube > from sheet and fill it with low temp white metal, I cut a slot for the wires in the side, drill and > tap two holes for mounting in the boiler, paint it green and glue the Soundtraxx speaker in > the end pointing at the stack. The sound is where it should be. > The units in the photo have a speaker at each end so there are 2 speakers per weight. I > have no idea if this will be better or a total waste of time to add two speakers. > > Rusty > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
