Bud, If you scroll down on Lance Mindheim's blog http://www.lancemindheim.com/blog.htm until you get to the part about using wireless headphones to receive the sound from decoders mounted under the benchwork, I think you'll be impressed. Start by going down far enough to read how he tried under table mounted speakers first.
Ed Kozlowsky Sanford, Maine sscale.org >________________________________ >From: Bud Rindfleisch <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:31 PM >Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: We are going back to running AC > > > > > >--- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, Ed Kozlowsky <soldado7264@...> wrote: >> >> I had a nice O scale MTH 4-4-0 that had a switch in the tender that would >> allow AC or DC running. In AC the sound included more "gimmick" sound >> effects like a water stop, shovelling coal, cab talk, etc. > >Ed, One of the most annoying "sounds" put in model steam engines is that cab >talk. Radios were, for the most part, not used in most steam (Pennsy Induction >radio being one exception)until excursion runs. Those roads that did use >radios sure wouldn't have had audible conversations from the ground. >Another annoying sound effect to me is the bell, or mostly the overuse of the >bell. Guys will ring the bell and then keep ringing and ringing it like a bill >collector at the front door! >I am intrigued by a recent ad in MR for Surroundtraxx", which uses large >speakers strategically placed about the layout and the DCC signals from the >locomotive guiding the sound to the closest speakers. >This should take away the tinny sound of a lot of systems, bass speakers aside. >In S (proper content)and O or G, the sound coming from a trailing tender >doesn't cut it for me either. I can see Bill Lane's logic of putting the >speaker in the boiler beneath the stack. >Bud Rindfleisch > > >> >> > >> > >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
