Talk about selling what something doesn’t have. A BLI without sound is a stealth engine. Hits my funny bone that one.
Heh heh. yeah. It’s like a car without a radio, it’s cheaper and quieter!
Matthew
Easy now lads! Not everyone is hung on sound after all silence is golden!
BLI makes a good Loco and not everyone needs the “Bells and Whistles”. So stealth is actually a good thing as why spend the money on something you don’t need.
Actually I salute BLI for making the hobby slightly more affordable to those who are into the KISS thing.
Fergie
I agree…but Stealth mode is classic.
Space Mousse:
Did your wife ever date a guy who’s car had NO radio? What guy would ask a girl for a date, if he had no radio?
( I always wondered where thet expression “All talk and no action” originated?).
Huh? “KISS” thing? What’s that mean?[%-)]
It means Keep It Simple, Stupid.
Andre
The very fact that BLI has recently begun to offer all their locomotives without sound, after starting out with the slogan, “Operate no more in silence!”, plus the big fire sale that was necessary just short of a year ago, clearly demonstrates that many (most?) hobbyists have been far from overwhelmed by the idea of sound in their locomotives…inspite of what the naive so vocally espouse to the opposite.
CNJ831
CNJ, that’s twice in nearly as many days that you have called those who disagree with you naive. If I am naive, I’m not sure it is worse than being judgmental.
Shoot, I think it’s the greatest thing since the can motor. Better even. Just installed a Soundtraxx PnP in one of my Spectrum 2-8-0’s and the other one will get upgraded later. Love my ATSF 4-8-4.
If I’m going DCC, I might as well add sound.
Andre
Andre
KISS
KEEP
IT
SIMPLE
&
SHORT
I suppose you were thinking Gene Simmons in heels and a long tongue.
And if you don’t know who Gene Simmons is ask your Ma & Pa!
Fergie
Just you wait. Next they’ll come out with one that’s invisible. Not only will you not be able to hear it, you won’t be able to see it either.
Andre
I wonder if it would been seen on RADAR.
Undoubtedly! And it’s not because I’m right and someone else is wrong but because naivete of the facts is such a strong aspect of posts one sees here and elsewhere.
Quite often posts are generated and then bolstered by relative hobby newbies or those totally lacking in any understanding of how and why the hobby came to be what it is today. You continuously see individuals run off expounding on how this or that feature, since it is the latest to come down the pike and of interest to them in their narrow experience, is sweeping the hobby and to do without that feature is just inconceivable. Sadly, the reality of the situation is typically just the opposite: what the poster thinks is so important and indispensible is, in fact, just a niche item or concept.
While I will ever champion everybody’s right to express their own opinion, it would be inspirational to see them tempered once in a while with knowledge of the subject at hand.[;)]
CNJ831
But what you have yet to establish is that your conclusion, that hobbyists are not overly enthused with sound, is a fact. Indeed, it is mere conjecture. I could just as convincingly argue that they are put off by the price, not by the sound. To support my argument, if BLI successfully moves many of these soundless locos, which of us will be right? The one arguing that they don’t want sound, or that they want cheaper BLI locomotives? How would we know?
To me, one labels another naive at one’s peril when one’s opinions are offered as facts.
I would gently encourage you to use less judgmental (absolutist) terms when expressing your doubts about another’s conclusions. It is more genteel, in public fora, to state merely that you do