Emax

I'm not sure judging an Emax II based on coverted Emax
I floppies is a good compairison.
They should probably be compaired using the disks
disigned for each.

Bob

--- cord_mueller <xpander@...> wrote:

> 
> I had them in my studio next to each other. The
> problem is that most
> of my sound disks were for the original emax. The
> emax2 was loading
> and converting them fine but the settings were
> slightly off (oftern
> the sound was duller with the version 2). Also, some
> of the sounds
> needed the extra crunch of the 8 bid system.
> Overall, the sounds were
> very similar. I can see people prefering one over
> the other. After
> all, the emax2 comes standard with SCSI and more
> Ram. However, I
> decided to let the emax2 go and keep the original
> one. Not sure if
> this was smart since mine is non scsi, only SE.
> However, the loading
> time of 20 seconds per disk is ok for me. 
> 
> What I found is that the overall sound is nice with
> the emax1. It
> looks like the stereo sampling and chorus takes away
> the stereo
> panning WOW effect of the original emax. 
> 
> So, what sounds better or not is probably a matter
> of taste. The
> digital filter in the emax2 was pretty good, even
> with resonance. For
> most of the sample sounds the filter is open anyway.
> However, I must
> have thought that the emax1 is better sounding,
> otherwise this one
> would have been gone. 
> 
> Cord
> 
> 
> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, JUDITH DEHART
> <deharts@p...> wrote:
> > Regarding Dan's message saying the original Emax
> > sounds better than the Emax II................I've
> > never heard that.  Is that true?
> > At lower resolution ( is it 12 bit ? ) it must
> have a
> > much lower signal to noise
> ratio.................did
> > it have warmer filters?  I don't get it.
> > Just curious,
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > ---------------------------------
> > Anyone  got an Emax I SE HD or HD for sale?
> > 
> > I won one on Ebay, but was just informed it broke
> > during shipment and I am 
> > getting a refund.
> > 
> > I was aware the Emax I sounded better than the
> Emax
> > II, so I am looking for 
> > that.
> > 
> > -Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



		
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