N&W Locomotive models (in response to: O guage Y6b)

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Stephen Rineair said, "The HO Y6b that was produced was not the best seller.
Why would BLI or PCM produce a Y anything else with all the complaints,
[allot from our society members] mostly  about the price and sound.  What do
you want at that price for a nonbrass loco.  I noticed several of our
society menbers buying the AHM/RIV model after a much improved model has
been produced and severly reduced.  Now they are dumping the new Y6b and
still are stuck.  They had to explain on their site that the sound was taken
from Links recordings and downloaded and still most of you are not happy."

 

I'm afraid I have to agree with Mr. Rineair here.  In the weeks following
the release of the PCM Y6b the vast majority of the comments on this mailing
list were quite negative, picking on this-or-that detail (especially sound)
that wasn't "right".  It got so bad that I was actually embarrassed and
offered an apology to PCM for the roasting they were getting here.  How many
of you took the trouble to go to the Lok Sound (ESU) website, download the
Lok Sound V3.5 manual and read/understand/use it?  Even running in DC it
improved the sound and operation of the locomotive greatly to adjust the
various accessible CVs, particularly the relative volumes of the sounds, the
speed curve, and the top speed.

 

Fellow members, be careful "biting the hand that feeds you."  We can easily
come across as just a bunch of grumpy old men that can never be pleased.
Having run a small manufacturing business, I can tell you that when I
brought a product to market and had nothing but whining and complaining from
the segment of the market it was aimed at I would think long and hard about
it before I did anything else for that market segment.

 

Tom Black

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