Sound equipped MU’ed with a non sound unit

[fishindogwood]

Looking for thoughts and opinions on this.  So if one is running several 2 diesel lashups, would it be worth making one unit a sound LM-3s and the mate an LM-3 non sound?   All will get a PBM-2 though, and  speakers will be SSS.  Admittedly this is about saving in costs, but also wonder if doubling the sound sources, although independent units, would be good, great, bad or unnecessary.  In the end I’ll probably just end up doing all sound units, but I’m seeing what you folks in the know think about this.   Thanks.

[William Brillinger]

Lots of people think this is a good idea, but personally I would not. If you ever want to change or split up the pairs, you lose a lot of flexibility and 2 locomotives always sound like 2 locomotives in real life, and that is true of the models as well.  I would go with all sound equipped.

[KPack]

You can certainly do one sound and one non-sound.  But I agree with Bill, if you are doing all the work anyways you may as well just do sound in each locomotive.  It will definitely sound better and be more realistic.  The cost is a bit more but not overly so.  I would at least put a LM-3S in each locomotive, and if needed you can hold off on the speaker for now.  But no reason to forego sound altogether.

-Kevin

[JRad]

I'm with Bill as well and I just like the fuller sound of multiple locos.

I'm running Fn3. I have a 2 loco GE 45 Ton set up with a speaker in the front hood, a big speaker between in a box car and another in the trailing loco rear hood. It sounds awesome.

If money is the issue, get the sound module, but hold off on the speaker until you can afford it.