Changing bespoke sounds on DCC

Any purchase of an ESU decoder pre-loaded with UK sounds will not allow changing of the sounds. To change any sounds in the decoder, you will need the original sound project that was loaded in.

ESU sound decoders will only take full projects not individual sounds.

The first task with any 'poor' sound decoder is to check and improve the speaker installation. Make sure it is enclosed and the enclosure is airtight so that sound will not travel from the front to the rear of the cone.

Elliptical speakers are not as good as round ones.

The Lokprogrammer is as good as it's software which is very good indeed.

Managing and using your 'own' sounds is quite easy for steam, a lot less so for diesels.

Audacity is good. I use WavePad from NCH.au. Free to try.

Making your own sound projects is an art. Few master it quickly. I am still on a learning curve but tend to concentrate on steam.

QUOTE (Richard Johnson @ 17 Feb 2009, 12:16) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>*** Hi David - I agree with the rest of your post but the above bit is simply not correct. Oval speakers are quite capable of being exceptionally good, and in many model train installs, are markedly superior to round speakers.... this applies to the ESU large oval as well as others.

Think back to hi-fi as well - the Kef B139 woofer was a ery famous oval speaker (6x9) and is still sold to this day - it is without doubt an exceptionally nice woofer/loudspeaker!

Richard

Hi Richard, nice to cross posts with you again!!

As always,my comments are based on experience. I have yet to find an elliptical speaker that I can get to perform as well as round ones. This includes at least one of the newer enclosed ones, all of which are rather too large for my purposes. True this was a literal bench test but again, as you know, the place that the speaker is placed can affect it's performance greatly.

I appreciate that there have been some remarkable efforts in the Hi Fi world and I am old enough to have heard some of them but again where they are greatly affects their perceived quality and the music that is playing on them, if badly recorded, defeats even the best speaker.

I sincerely believe that the Loksound Micro would be better sold without the speaker that is supplied. I believe that the current lack of any supplied enclosure is less than ideal but I assume that said Micro has been produced as is for a reason that may not include UK (or indeed Oz ) models.

As to small speakers, it is my eternal regret that I cannot safely link an SL74 8 ohm speaker to an ESU chip and, even if I did, it would not perform as well as it does on the virtually unreprogrammable SL chip.

Having said that, I have played with a beautiful 32 ohm speaker that absolutely transformed a Digitrax sound chip performance.