Sounds generators, geez

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I know I'm just getting into this hobby and I know its not a "cheap" hobby, but why the heck are locomotive sound generators so expensive?! If I want to add sound to my LGB 2095 its gonna run dang near what I paid for the loco! I guess this isn't really a question so much as a vent about something I likely don't understand. Thanks!
 
I know I'm just getting into this hobby and I know its not a "cheap" hobby, but why the heck are locomotive sound generators so expensive?! If I want to add sound to my LGB 2095 its gonna run dang near what I paid for the loco! I guess this isn't really a question so much as a vent about something I likely don't understand. Thanks!
Our models are big. Not so many people 'play' with them! So a niche in model trains. - Not so much 'economies of scale' for manufacturers..

Less people want sound. - A niche, within a niche..
Some of those people want to stay analogue, some go DCC. - Another niche.
Some want steam, some want diesel, some want electric..
All the above want announcements in either the prototypical language, or their own..

So... Nothing ever quite suits everybody/anybody, and we put lots of time and effort into many different ones..

PhilP.
 
I know I'm just getting into this hobby and I know its not a "cheap" hobby, but why the heck are locomotive sound generators so expensive?! If I want to add sound to my LGB 2095 its gonna run dang near what I paid for the loco! I guess this isn't really a question so much as a vent about something I likely don't understand. Thanks!
There is a more economical way of adding sound to your LGB 2095 (cute loco, I love those connecting rods). A MyLocoSound soundcard with 3 watt speaker and TV Remote control (for setting up the sounds) comes to about US$140. The light diesel soundcard comes with a variety of horns and engines and the GE electric horn and engine are very close to the 2095. See Light Industrial. Talk to Del Tapparo at G Scale Graphics in Colorado; he is the MyLocoSound US distributor.

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Peter Lucas
MyLocoSound
 
There is a more economical way of adding sound to your LGB 2095 (cute loco, I love those connecting rods). A MyLocoSound soundcard with 3 watt speaker and TV Remote control (for setting up the sounds) comes to about US$140. The light diesel soundcard comes with a variety of horns and engines and the GE electric horn and engine are very close to the 2095. See Light Industrial. Talk to Del Tapparo at G Scale Graphics in Colorado; he is the MyLocoSound US distributor.

Regards
Peter Lucas
MyLocoSound
That does seem like a decent way to resolve this.
 
That does seem like a decent way to resolve this.
There are plenty of posts about fitting sound included in the Battery thread. Many of my conversions have My Loco Sound fitted but I have also used DCC sound (yes more expensive unless pre fitted) and some have even used steam ship sound units in the long and distant oast.
 
Not too bad a sound for the money, presumably no horn?
On our light diesel soundcard there is a choice of seven horns which can be triggered by radio control, or my track magnets or at automatic timed intervals. There is also a bell for US locos, a guard's whistle, an "All aboard", brake squeal. There are five throttle gear profiles and a selectable gear change.

Regards
Peter Lucas
MyLocoSound
 
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