#Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16??
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An ad in the May 11 PC Magazine, page 89, caught my eye.
Does anybody own a Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 sound board? The non 16 did
not do real good in the PC Magazine review in the issue before.
The ad says the card will do everything a Sound Blaster and or a Pro
Audio Spectrum 16 will do and more. (Of course!)
But what jumped out at me is that they claim that this board will
control my Mitsumi CD-ROM drive. That's right, the non-scsi IDE type Mitsumi
dirve.
If so, this would sure be a nice setup in that I could swap this board
for my Mitsumi controller and gain sound. I am down to my last slot so this is
a nice solution, if it works.
So, if you have seen this setup in action please let me know how well it
works and wht you think.
Thanks,
Mike.
I have also seen that it "supports cdrom drives such as the mitsumi. Does it
really drive the mitsumi lu0005 ?. If it does, it could replace two cards (SB
and mitsumi ) by one card.
I've got a Sound Galaxy board and it does indeed have a built in Mitsumi
controller. I recently bought a new PC which was supplied with CD rom and
sound board. The kit used is the Sound Galaxy multimedia upgrade kit which uses
the Mitsumi L005. The card has a built in AT bus interface with an upgrade
option to an SCSI interface. I'm no great expert on the relative merits of
different sound cards so I can't really comment other than to say that it seems
adequate (i.e. no more than the usual number of unexplained glitches etc!). Be
warned however that the proprietary driver for the Mitsumi supplied with the
card seems to take up about 80k of base memory (it won't load high). As a
result, I don't use the SG driver, using the standard Mitsumi driver available
on various Compuserve forums instead. I haven't experienced any obvious
problems.
Hope this is of some help.
…Patrick
OK, great! This is what I need to hear.
When you say "standard Mitsumi dirver" do you know if that is the one
that came with my Mitsumi drive? Since they claim compatability with every
thing from Sound Blaster to tracker pipe organs have you found any software
sound that does not play?
Does it support all the inputs and outputs to a "sound mixer" as the Pro
Audio Spectrum does? And lastly, how does it "sound" to you? Bright and
clear, no hiss, no distortion, like a good home stereo?
Thanks for your help.
Mike.
A friend had one for awhile, and could not make it work right with Windows. He
was using one of those nasty accelerators that decodes every odd port in sight.
The NX Pro also needs to decode nearly every port in sight to provide the
different sound boards. It even includes a "Virtual Parallel Port" for those
sound devices. Being in Guam you had best get a good return policy up front.
If you can get it to work it really is a one card solution to dozens of
different MultiMedia things though.
Hi Michael
I have a Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 and a mitsumi LU005s CD-ROM. They are installed
with the default settings, except that the installation program for the NX
board had to be told that I use a mitsumi drive and not a Sony drive.
I've had two problems.
1. My PC wouldn't boot after I installed the CD-ROM beacuse it was connected to
the same power cord as my tape backup. I changed to another (available) cord,
and the PC booted fine.
2. After the first NX software installation, my windows installation walked to
sowhere (I am sure it didn't want to Kansas). I installed windows from scratch
to solve the problem.
peter (continued…)
Hi Michael (again)
The NX sound is good, but clicks and ticks in the loudspeakers during boot and
printing. The sound has some hiss.
The CD is very sensitive – so don't jump or dance while you play.
I've ordered the wave table option to see how it works.
Have fun.
peter
Thanks for your reply.
I have had my Mitsumi since January. As I am ready to add sound the
Sound Galaxy sounds like a good one slot solution. My computer sits on a solid
desk, on a concrete slab floor. Perhaps that is why I have never had a
skipping problem.
When you say the sound has a little hiss, how does this compare to other
sound board systems you have heard? Are you sure there is hiss while playing
CD (red book) sound? I expect some hiss when playing 8 bit sound.
So, over all, are you happy? Is this a recomended buy or do you wish
you had something else?
Mike.
Some further snooping around CIS indicates that Aztech is now on a 2.1 driver
for the Sound Galaxy cards, and it seems to solve the Windows problems.
Which forum can Aztec Labs be found on?
Mike.
That is one of their big problems…they can't! The books we had did not list
a BBS either.
Hi Mike
The hiss is audioable when you play sound, from either the Sound Galaxy board
or when playing audio CDs. (I don't have that on my Hi-Fi CD player).
Sound Galaxy NX Pro 16 and Mitsumi LU005s is recommended for home use. You have
only one adapter board in your PC, sound playing through the Sound Galaxy, an
acceptable fast CD-ROM. And the price is OK, at least here in Denmark if you do
a little shopping.
If I had enough money I would choose a SCSI CD-ROM, because it is more
"compatible", ie it is has more support now, and in the future. As for SCSI
CD-ROMs you can't go wrong with a NEC drive. I have NEC CDR-74 at work.
peter