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Editorial Which is better?

Sometimes you can look at the innards of things and find out. This is the case here. MTH spent a long time to develop their system and probably studied other systems including TMCC which came out first. The result is a very compact package designed from the start to be plug in, drop in. This photo is of a ProtoSound 2 in a Switch engine tender.

Thinking of you as a client MTH even offers a retro-kit for those of us who bought ProtoSound1 equipment earlier. Another asset of MTH is we can go to their web site and down load sounds to our locomotives through our computer. I haven't tried it on my Mac to see if it downloads the codes correctly but I'm getting ready to find out. If it won't I can still get a friend on a PC to do it for me.

Two things make me partial to MTH's system although I have TMCC also is the thumb wheel and the mode of signal transmission. If I get inside a mountain on my pike the signal is carried through the track so no signal is lost with MTH whereas I lose my signal with TMCC. The advantage late model TMCC engines have is the Fat Boy speakers so I have been putting Fat Boys in my MTH loco's with ProtoSound 2. Oh yes another edge I think MTH has is the simplicity of meshing the TMCC system with ProtoSound 2 and until the latest version of TMCC the number of speed notches in PS2. Keep your eye on the rail until next time.

Above is TMCC in a Commodore Vanderbilt tender. Beside is a Fat Boy Speaker.

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