Sub par Baby Fat Boy speaker in new Lionel light mountain—options?

If I follow you, and I may not, after the switching back and forth, and your statement that all the other sounds from your Mountain using the Mountain's original speaker are just fine, what it sounds like (no pun) to me is that the digital whistle recording in your 4-8-2's chip is one of a not particularly strong whistle. They - the real ones - did vary. If the speaker was not up to par, almost certainly all the other sounds would be sub-par, too, to some degree, at least.

This seems to be a software issue, not a hardware one. Maybe the loco from which the recording was made had a less-robust whistle. Some did. 

If that chuff is right, that's 90% of the value of a model steamer's sound, anyway. 

Dawg,

     I found this video of the Southern Light Mountain on YouTube:

         https://youtu.be/03o6wBMerF8

      Sounds pretty darn good in my humble opinion. Can you post a video of your engine?

Thanks

JohnB 

Here is another one:

           https://youtu.be/uqAkt_eKRnQ  

 I've noticed on recent releases of Diesel engines where a super bass b unit is available, that the A units sound is not as loud as they used to be, basically forcing you to get the super bass b unit.

@D500 posted:

If I follow you, and I may not, after the switching back and forth, and your statement that all the other sounds from your Mountain using the Mountain's original speaker are just fine, what it sounds like (no pun) to me is that the digital whistle recording in your 4-8-2's chip is one of a not particularly strong whistle. They - the real ones - did vary. If the speaker was not up to par, almost certainly all the other sounds would be sub-par, too, to some degree, at least.

This seems to be a software issue, not a hardware one. Maybe the loco from which the recording was made had a less-robust whistle. Some did. If that chuff is right, that's 90% of the value of a model steamer's sound, anyway. 

Thanks D500–the issue is that when I switched the speakers out, the 18 year old Lionel speaker (lower wattage one) sounded better in my new Legacy Mountain engine.  That leads me to believe that the speaker I got with my new Mountain engine is either bad, or just sub par relative to the older speakers.  

@JohnB posted:

Dawg,

     I found this video of the Southern Light Mountain on YouTube:

         https://youtu.be/03o6wBMerF8

      Sounds pretty darn good in my humble opinion. Can you post a video of your engine?

Thanks

JohnB 

Thanks for the reply JohnB.  Yes, I had seen that same video on YouTube as well and I said, “Wow” my whistle doesn’t sound anywhere near that good.  I’ll take a video in the morning and post my train running so you can hear the whistle.

Dawg,

     I do not know how to increase the whistle volume without raising the overall volume. Maybe another forum member can help. Good luck Look forward to you video.

JohnB