Diamond Ultra Kit 8000 (250-0208) Features Faxback Doc. # 31666 Super fast 8X CD-ROM drive, delivering information at an amazing 1.2 MB per second. 32-voice, 16-bit 3D Wavetable sound card uses recordings of actual instruments to create incredible audio. Yamaha powered speakers can create soothing music or rock your desktop. 5 of the hottest entertainment reference titles around. Software utilities for recording, mixing, and editing audio. Automatic setup and system configuration software, pictorial manuals and instructional make installation quick and easy! What is 8X CD-ROM Technology? Simply put, it is the fastest CD-ROM drive available. An 8X CD-ROM drive delivers data at 1,200 KB/s (kilobytes per second), or twice as fast as 4X, or "quad speed", drives. Faster data delivery means less time spent waiting for files to load and smoother, more lifelike performances from your multimedia applications. What is Wavetable Technology? Wavetable technology is a major advance in multimedia sound quality. While most sound cards use a computer synthesizer to approximate the sounds of CD-ROM titles, Wavetable technology enables your computer to play back the pre-recorded sounds of actual musical instruments. The difference is startlingly obvious from the first moment you hear it: Music tracks are brighter and clearer; action games become more intense. The Diamond Wavetable sound card uses advanced data compression technology to fit 2 megabytes of pre-recorded audio into 1 megabyte of memory, for full, rich stereo sound so good you won't ever listen to another sound card. (BKL-04/01/96)