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ibacon@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Ian Bacon) writes:

>I have the offer of a Creative Lab Multi Media Upgrade kit at $890.
>Is this CD / Sound card system any good? Is the price ok ? 

I don't know about the price but I think the MM kit is probably
the cheapest soundcard+cdrom combination around (or at least
it was when I was looking last year). Its pretty ok though you
only get a pretty standard panasonic drive (but you get what you pay for ;-)
One possible disadvantage is that the interface from the cd to the
soundblaster pro is a proprietory interface which is not scsi
which probably means it is difficult to upgrade the cd drive itself
if you want to get an XA or double speed drive.

If you want a top of line drive then you are probably better off
getting a SCSI card and a NEC drive but that will probably cost
quite a bit more. Depends also whether you need a soundcard or not.
Some soundcards like the Pro Audio Spectrum do come with a SCSI
interface for cd drives.

Roland

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