I had the opportunity a couple of weeks ago of visiting one of the members of the local railroad club who was just in the process of running in his new 4-6-0 Spectrum steamer. It is the model with the factory sound installed.
What a great sounding engine it is, the performance of the engine is excellent as well, great slow speed control. The sound and performance aspects of the Tsuami decoder is excellent, what advancement there has been over the last couple of years.
Well yesterday the new Spectrum engine with factory sound that I had ordered arrived, it is also a 4-6-0 with the low boiler and small tender What a great engine. Spent the today running the engine in.
Bachmann sure has a winner with their factory installed Tsuami sound steam engines. Now all I need to do is upgrade my Spectrum roster now that I know the quality and performance aspects of the Tsuami decoders.
Don, I could not agree more with the quality of these engines. My first purchase was a Roundhouse 4-4-0 with dcc and sound and a Spectrum 2-8-0 also with the dcc and sound. Needless to say one was worth it and the other was well, not so much worth it. I love my Connie. It looks, works, pulls, and just overall out out performs everything else I own. I’ve even given serious thought to getting another one. I often tell those just getting into the hobby that they should seriously consider saving some more coin and get a Bachmann Spectrum dcc and sound installed engine for their first purchase. Jay
What a difference between my older BLI steamers and the new Tsuami equiped 4-6-0. In fact I just sent for another, the 2-8-0 model. Will have to start to save up and convert a few other Spectrums.
I’m very happy with my 2-10-0 with Tsunami. Given how many options the decoder has, it’s interesting to note that the Spectrum engines comes with a pared down version of the Tsunami !!
Stix, I agree. The Spectrum is the first decoder that I even tried to program. And I was totally lost when I began. I took me several tries to get things tuned the way they are now. For the quality and price that you receive, I cannot see why anyone would by anything else. Jay