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Article #93Re: Turtle Beach Maui for Sale TB wave-table
From: Kevin Huang
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 23:53
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 23:53
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Richard (cs5rcs@humus.ucc.hull.ac.uk) wrote:
: On 28 Oct 1994, Heiko Hoffmann wrote:
: Oh No! - I had a Maui once - 7 months ago - and I'm sorry Turtle Beach but
: it was honestly totally and utterly Crap! I already had a SCC1 so I could
: compare the two cards running simultaneously switching between them
: (playing the same midi track) on the amp. Ok, I bought the Maui to use the
: sample-store feature (making instruments out of samples) but believe me,
: you don't want to hear the Maui! God! The sounds sounded muffled, as if
: coming from behind a pillow, and was just very low quality. It may have
: been from a bad batch but I didn't think so (although the waveblaster
: upgrade pins were missing from the board!) I think the design was simply
: flawed. The sound card I use now - AWE32 is much better than the Maui,
: quality wise, and in fact, 'everything else' wise as well! I'm referring
: to supplied documentation and software. But, then the Maui never did catch
: on so I was glad to see the back of that card only a few days after trying
: it out. (I sold it to someone who had never heard the SCC1). Well, that's
: what I think about the Maui. It disgusts me! :-(*)
: Richard ---->>---->>---->> r.c.shidhu@dcs.hull.ac.uk (Hull, N.E.England)
I'm a bit comfused. I heard a lot of good things about the maui, this
post just said it sucked badly. Hopefully it's just a bad sample of a
Maui 'cause I'm seriously thinking of buying a Maui. Any Maui or
ex-Maui owners want to comment on their Maui?
/<evin
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