Thanks for the various comments & suggestions ... all sorted now.

Regarding the sound 'interference' at shows, Yes I have experience the same. Exhibiting an N gauge DC layout next to an 0 gauge TMD layout with full sound was not a good experience. short periods with sound, or to demonstrate to an interested viewer are fine, but continuously on all locos and all day is not pleasant.
Maybe exhibition managers need to take note of this and request operators using sound to only turn it on for say 10 minutes in every hour, or when requested by someone viewing the layout. A notice could be attached to the layout, or in the guide to indicate which layouts have sound fitted locos?
Just my thoughts based on experience.
Cheers.

Quote from: Roy L S on February 20, 2026, 09:05:57 AMin a smaller more "intimate" one with a lowish ceiling it can work fine and be perfectly audible, but in a large and busy "tin shed" with very high roof less so (2) the quality of the sound fit and sound file, my 37 with Jamie goodman sound file and decent Sugarcube speaker as an example does pretty well.

That's true, I more commonly visit the big shows like the ones at the NEC or GETS where the acoustics are less than ideal.

Totally agree with you on the quality of installation. The gooduns I've got sound wonderful at home. The badduns go on the upgrade list!

Seven??
I can think of only one reason why you'd have one in yer bedroom  

20 years and counting for a 7' long Minories.

Or three and a half years for a 1' T-TRAK module.

Quote from: Will_J on February 20, 2026, 08:36:20 AMIt's certainly been my own experience that sound doesn't do very well with shows. You can barely hear it unless it's blasted through a watt-tastic O gauge speaker and I can only imagine how grating it gets for exhibitors both on the sound layout or close to it!

My personal experience of exhibiting N models with sound is that it depends on (1) the venue, in a smaller more "intimate" one with a lowish ceiling it can work fine and be perfectly audible, but in a large and busy "tin shed" with very high roof less so (2) the quality of the sound fit and sound file, my 37 with Jamie goodman sound file and decent Sugarcube speaker as an example does pretty well.

I totally agree with the other point you make, I remember one show I was exhibiting at had a G Scale layout demo, some lovely models, but those sound locos (especially with continuous bells clanging) did my head in after about 10 minutes and I was across the hall from them!

Another belated Happy Birthday Mike,

Hope you had a lovely day and didn't get as sozzled as my wife did (her birthday too, not just a usual Thursday      )

Cheers, weave 

It's certainly been my own experience that sound doesn't do very well with shows. You can barely hear it unless it's blasted through a watt-tastic O gauge speaker and I can only imagine how grating it gets for exhibitors both on the sound layout or close to it!

Quote from: Roy L S on February 20, 2026, 07:58:56 AMIt isn't lost on me and is kind of ironic that once upon a time how quietly a loco ran was something we talked about and celebrated in the days before DCC, but I guess actually it remains just as important on a sound fitted model as there is nothing more annoying (to me anyway) than being able to hear the mechanism as well as the sound the loco is supposed to make.

Roy

Your point about quietness is very valid, Roy. The new Kato SBB Re6/6 I Krokodil is possibly the quietest mechanism I've ever heard, virtually silent. A pal has two and they're fabulous.

Belated Birthday wishes young man .
Bob