A few posts ago I decided to experiment with some speakers for my sound fitted locomotives. Both the Class 45 and Western had smaller speakers, both of which I had become increasingly irritated with the sound quality on. Both speakers produced quite tinny sounds and were quite trebly in the sound they produced. So after a bit of web googling I opted to buy a couple of small double Iphone 6 speakers from Roads and Rails. This evening I swapped over the smaller rectangular speaker in the Western for comparison. The difference is quite outstanding, although on the videos, it is less noticeably. The biggest difference is the base end of the sound, which is now far more distinct. The general sound functions are hugely improved. The swap over took 30 mins but has increased the sound reproduction no end. The lesson, use a higher quality speaker in the locomotive! By the time you fit a sound decoder in a locomotive, you are looking at a £200 locomotive. The speaker is a relatively cheap part and one that will improve your enjoyment of using the locomotive no end. Another job for the weekend now is to change the speaker in the class 45....
Start up old speaker
Start up new speaker
Running old speaker
Running new speaker
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