With a $100 difference between sound non sound it makes sound a little too rich for me. Plus I've never been too happy with the quality of the sound in HO - O - S or N so its not going to be too much of a loss for me. What will be a loss for me is how much weight is given up to fit a speaker in, in N scale even a 10 gram loss is significant when it gets to pulling power.
If you reserve one though BLW it's actually an $80 difference.
-Cody F.