Hi James; I'm assuming you mean DCC sound, since there are no real "systems" for sound under straight DC (although some DCC sound decoders will produce a minimal subset of sounds under DC).
In HO, Mike's Train House offers trains with their proprietary control system which will operate under DCC. So sound systems are somewhat compatible between DCC and DCS (the MTH system). I don't see why Mike's would abandon this for SHS trains. This leaves Lionel as the outlier, but they have already discussed adding some level of DCC compatibility. For that matter, Lionel TMCC/Legacy and MTH DCS are control systems similar in concept to DCC, just proprietary rather than a common standard as DCC is. It isn't quite like going back to Lionel/Gilbert AC with the forward/neutral/reverse sequence. Pieter E. Roos --- On Fri, 8/24/12, JAMES SLEETH <[email protected]> wrote: I have 15 DC powered engines and am building a new layout. I though I would treat myself to a few new Lionel engines. You know they are going to scale with wheels etc. I knew these where AC engines. So I go to Mikes to see if I could buy one system to run sound. Yes Mikes will run Lionel sound but not DC sound either. So if Mike turns all SHS engines to AC power we are going back wards. RIGHT? I have been playing with S gauge for 60 years. I have seen who makes what for all these years. All I got was excuses and no information on any system that will run AC and DC sound. I spent 2 weeks looking at all the HO DC systems and I know what I will by to run DC. I am building a layout with RR concepts system. It only works on DC, so no I am not so dumb as to know that I can just hook up a AC trans form and all will be fine. So I will now order a few American Model engines and add DC sound. The only answer I got was to buy the new Lionel's, take out the AC sound units and sell them on E-bay and then buy DC sound units and install them. So can you guys make S scale grow by telling some one new who wants to get into S scale that he needs to do that to run new Lionel engines? NO! What a mess. The answer is not to go back and forth talking about this, but asking Lionel and Mike to offer DC powered engines.
