I know what you mean man..
Right now I've got a S1100,S900,S2800 and the S3kxl.
I absolutely love the S900's gritty sound and simple interface but the 1100 is just as special sound wise and it has huge ram compared to the 900 so it gets the most use.
I agree,the 3kxl does not sound as good as the 2800 or the older akais.It's still pretty though!!
I am not really sure why I got it in the f irst place now that I think about it.
It was about 60-70€ w/ full ram and a still fairly bright screen so I thought why not..
If I see things like that tossed around at these prices I just feel like rescuing them or something.
Great tips about the Scsi stuff you got there.:)
Saving for future reference!
Built like tanks - you just don't get that quality nowadays.
I would really recommend using an Old PC with Scsi cards in and use as a sample library. I have a S1100, a S3000xl and CD3000xl all hooked up via Adaptec Scsi cards, all of which share the same Sample resource on the pc.The only thing to look out for in using the S1100 this way is that you need a SCSI HD drive in the chain too, as you need to save the samples to that first and then you can import them to the PC via Millennium.Using a scsi HD as a staging post for your S1100 samples is the only way I could get them into the pc.Oh yes, another thing I found out the hard way is that the S1100 can save to a S1100 formatted Scsi HD of 20gb, but if you load them back into the S1100 the samples are corrupted. Ironically, you can then load them from the Scsi HD into the S3000xl and they playback fine, and I can save them to pc HD via Millennium and they load back on the S1100 fine from the pc! - I guess its to do with the S1000/s1100 not liking drives bigger than 1024mb.The 3kXL series is fantastic for sending a receiving via pc, but to my ears they sound a little cardboardy ( I know what I mean :) , sort of flat and lifeless in comparison to the S1100. They are dirt cheap though.The Cd3000xl cost me £36 including the 4 cdroms that came with it. I only bought it so that i could load Akai cdroms into my S1100via scsi, and it was cheaper than trying to source and buy a stand alone scsi cdrom drive!Crazy!.