06-04-2016, 10:28 AM
Lutz, I hoped you would tell me I did not understand the Zimo sound decodersat all and there are hundreds of high quality sounds of all kind of US diesel engines available.... Ok, I stop dreaming now.
Looks like Soundtraxx is really the best compromise at the market today. I was a little bit afraid they were a dying company trapped by the old Tsunami decoder. But the new available Econami and the soon to be available Tsunami 2 show the company is alive and their products are vital.
I own the ESU programmer (the older blue one) and played a lot with it the 3.0 and 3.5 sound projects. ESU did not protect their sound projects in the very beginning. It was fun to deeply modify the internal logic. I could taylor some sounds for my specific needs of switching only. But that is gone a long time ago.
I had at that time a lengthy and in-depth discussion with the ESU developers about the humming sound. The outcome was a clear "it works as designed". They refused to discuss how Zimo handles the motor at slow speed. May be Dr. Ziegler is not the charming person openly talking about internals while Zimo developers have been very friendly all time. ESU was at that time very much German and Märklin minded (I did never hear a Märklin engine with a ESU decoder at low speed). May be the ESU selection by some US/Chinese companies may change that in the future.
Looks like Soundtraxx is really the best compromise at the market today. I was a little bit afraid they were a dying company trapped by the old Tsunami decoder. But the new available Econami and the soon to be available Tsunami 2 show the company is alive and their products are vital.
I own the ESU programmer (the older blue one) and played a lot with it the 3.0 and 3.5 sound projects. ESU did not protect their sound projects in the very beginning. It was fun to deeply modify the internal logic. I could taylor some sounds for my specific needs of switching only. But that is gone a long time ago.
I had at that time a lengthy and in-depth discussion with the ESU developers about the humming sound. The outcome was a clear "it works as designed". They refused to discuss how Zimo handles the motor at slow speed. May be Dr. Ziegler is not the charming person openly talking about internals while Zimo developers have been very friendly all time. ESU was at that time very much German and Märklin minded (I did never hear a Märklin engine with a ESU decoder at low speed). May be the ESU selection by some US/Chinese companies may change that in the future.
Reinhard