the TCS Keep alive works great with Loksound as long as you don't program with it. Keep alive is literally just hardwired to the power, as all tcs keepalives are, so when you are programming, the signals get muddled, preventing programming to occur. think of passenger car lights without capacitors, when you add capacitors to the circuit, it makes the lights drain slower. the decoder programs in fast pulses, so adding capacitance to these pulses basically extends the signals to the point where its constant, so basically no cv's get changed. The speakers are Stock, i just added some black electrical tap to the sides of the tender shell to dampen the vibration.

@@nathanburke1224 Thanks so much for the insight! Thank god Bachmann used a 21 pin plug so modelers can easily do decoder swaps themselves lol. I wonder how easy selling the OEM TCS was

@@CentralJerseyRailfan I personally just use it in an older locomotive just to record sounds off of if i need them. though, i wonder if you could sell second hand decoders at all