Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

thanks for the response!  One thing still bothers me is all these 
reviews that claim the S1100 sounds much better than the S1000.  In 
fact, I haven't heard of a 16-bit sampler from Akai that gets more 
praise for it's sound -- save maybe the MPC3000.

Is this sound comparison something to think about (this is nearly the 
most important factor I think for these old beasties).

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "formals777" 
<frank.govaerts@p...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The S1100 has more features which were targetted towards 
professional 
> studio's (SMPTE, XLR digital out,HD recording...) so I don't think 
> they are very usefull at this moment. Besides that it included some 
> cards like SCSI wand optical in/out which were optional for the 
> S1000. Most S1000's will have a scsi card by now - probably not the 
> digital in/out which is very practical if you want to sample from a 
> cd.
> I think you can go for the S1000 as long as it has a working scsi 
card
> ( try with a hard disk - not a cdrom) and enough RAM. One of the  
> members of this list has a company selling these extension cards - 
in 
> case you need them. Give the sampler a try if you can and let us 
know.
> 
> Regards,
> Frank
> 
> 
>  
> --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "tbiggz" 
> <infarmah@h...> wrote:
> > There's someone selling an S1000 locally.  I hear great things 
> about 
> > the S1100 though... any opinions?