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Hello , can someone tell me which of these is the best ?
and also does anyone know the year of manufacture of all the emu samplers , i have done searches everywhere and can't find anything ??

Cheers , Ian

E6400 Ultra is a higher spec'd machine than the E5000 Ultra.
I think the Ultra series begun shipping in 98-99

The E6400 Ultra has 8 balanced analog outs, expandable to 16, it has 64 voice poly, expandable to 128, i think it came with 16 meg but its expandable to 128.

The E5000 Ultra has 4 balanced outputs, expandable to 12 using the same 8313 outputs card as can be put in the E6400 Ultra, i think it has 64 voices, and minimal ram.

Buy the E6400 if u can cos u may not be able to find an output card anymore an to be stuck with only 4 outs on the E5000 would blow!!!

cheers drayon , after all the research i have done this week and all the reviews i have read , i am getting an emu sampler . I narrowed it down to emu and yamaha but emu wins . Kurzweil is overpriced , the samplers of equal price have small polyphony . I am trying to get a e6400 ultra , there are a few available to me . What do you think would be the most i should pay for one assuming base model ??

djthepurist wrote:cheers drayon , after all the research i have done this week and all the reviews i have read , i am getting an emu sampler . I narrowed it down to emu and yamaha but emu wins . Kurzweil is overpriced , the samplers of equal price have small polyphony . I am trying to get a e6400 ultra , there are a few available to me . What do you think would be the most i should pay for one assuming base model ??

thank fsck u decided against a Kurzweil....ugh...i have a k2500S...make sure u is holding a 10 foot pole so u dont get to close to one is all i will say!!!

Despite the fact that the E6400 has 64 voices id still buy the machine over a Yamaha even if the Yamaha had 128 voices purely because of the sound of the EMU. My initial experience with the EMU was a little tainted due to my many years with the k2500S. The OS seems awkward and somewhat ailen. But after a few days of reading the preset editor section in the manual i begun to understand the architechture. The EOS has really given me a new horizon of ideas to experiment with. These are layering/filtering etc and i woundt have tried many of the things i do now on my kurz.

Anywayz make sure u read the most important sections of the manual...its ez to read just pick out the preset edit/manage chapters then the sample edit/manage then your on ya way. I just wish i had of chosen an EMU over the Krz back in 95 :-(

on this page u will see a refurbished 128 voice E6400 Ultra for $599 USD

http://www.emu.com/shop/shopcategory.asp?category=300

U better call to find out if they still have one. These are obscenely cheep. They have warranty etc
I have seen E6400 Ultras go for as little as 500 bux US. Thats is amazingly cheep considering they cost about 2k in their peak. I havent seen them for more than 800 USD. I think 500-800 is about the going range of price.

best of luck, werd us up if ya need anything else innit!!

just realized your in australia...um sorry for the US prices.
Im in AUS as well, i bought ALL my EMU's from the US cos the dudes selling theirs on the second hand market ere were taking the piss askin for like 3 grand in our money for E6400 Ultra'. I got fully bombed E4XT Ultra's sent from the USA for about 2500 AUD

the $ to the USD is wikid atm so don't rule out buying from the USA...check EMU tho they may still have E6400's best to buy from them direct since their machines are mostly in perfect condition.