Original Message 1/3                 Date: 04-Feb-00  @  12:04 AM   -   ESI-2K is ESI-4K in disguise

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Made time to stop at GC today and check out the new E-mu samplers. I booted the ESI2K and noticed the screen displayed "ESI-4000 OS v3.02" ha ha ha

They had a ESI-4000 with the Effects/extra Outputs board for $899 and the ESI-2000 w/o the Effects/Output board for $799. Hhmmm, which sounds like the better deal? ;-)

It may be my imagination but the ESIs don't seem to sound as rich as the E5KU did - maybe because the ESI-2000 didn't have the effects board installed (no demo disks to try the ESI4K)

Anyway, i'm not ready to switch from my ASR-X Pro yet...

regards,
jondl

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Message 2/3                 Date: 07-Feb-00  @  11:56 AM   -   RE: ESI-2K is ESI-4K in disguise

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THE ESI 2000 IS NOT EXPANDABLE TO THE SAME AMOUNT OF OUTPUTS AS THE ESI 4000
TAKE A LOOK AT EMU-SYSTEMS HOME PAGE I HAVE NOT HEARD THE OTHER SAMPLERS BUT MY 4000 PRODUCES SOME VERY WARM SOUNDS YOU JUST GOTTA GET YOUR HEAD AROUND IT

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Message 3/3                 Date: 07-Feb-00  @  02:21 PM   -   RE: ESI-2K is ESI-4K in disguise

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The 4k won`t sound as lush as the 5k cos of the ultra series` higher quality DACs but that don`t necessarily mean the esi series sound cold in comparison.

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