Best Sound. Shay.
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Once upon a time Soundtraxx Sierra units were also very good, a fair bit cheaper than Phoenix, in some respects more versatile albeit with a slightly less powerful amplifier. Sadly they are now out of production but well worth considering if you can find an old stock or second hand example. The company is still in business and was still offering service on the units earlier this year.
You could try Martins Models he has several Soundtraxx Sierra sound chips in stock if i remember he had a Shay in stock cost around £150 .
Recently we had a customer purchase a MyLocoSound card for his Shay and he found that the chuff adjustment would not go high enough for the chuff rate he needed at maximum speed. We therefore modified the soundcard and MyLocoSound is now more suitable for Shays.
Peter
Peter
Hi I have an ESU sound / DCC chip combined in my Shay. Sound is great and from what I can gather quite prototypical. The whole thing took about 10 mins to wire with the instructions. It is one of the best sound units I have. Came from Jeremy needless to say. Chip seems to have been programmed for the shay too. good start up sequence and slows doen slowly so has to be thought about rather than just stopped at the press of a button. Have not yet bothered to fine tune it.
AC
AC
i have a phoenix sound, u can find examples (turn on the volume) on the video-section of the forum.
I wanted to try QSI for a Connie (cause its cheaper) but that didnt fit to a RC steering.
I think the phoenix gives the sound very prototypical, only thing thats bad is the brake-squieeek that always comes to late (who needs it with a shay????)
Frank
I wanted to try QSI for a Connie (cause its cheaper) but that didnt fit to a RC steering.
I think the phoenix gives the sound very prototypical, only thing thats bad is the brake-squieeek that always comes to late (who needs it with a shay????)
Frank