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To: Steve Sucheck who wrote (939)	3/12/1999 5:33:00 PM
From: Artslaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1136

The Turtle Beach press release might have been it--it held nicely today. Would have been nicer if their press release had mentioned Aureal by name instead of just A3D. It's possible that people are also anticipating the April conclusion of all these stupid outstanding Class B and C shares. People have to start covering their shorts after they convert (but, of course, the conversion will dilute earnings. . .). See: exchange2000.com Steve

To: Steve Sucheck who wrote (939)	3/23/1999 3:19:00 AM
From: chris431	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1136

Quantex increasing use of Vortex I often browse OEM's websites and advertisements in magazine to see how aggressively they are pushing Aureal cards. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Compaq continues to increase it's use of Vortex based cards as does Dell. One company I have been looking at for quite some time in hopes they would start adding Vortex cards as an option is Quantex. My first computer was a Quantex (486DX2/66) many years ago before Quantex became a player. As it now stands, I believe Quantex is in the top 5-10 sellers of PCs. A couple months ago I noticed that they did add the MX300 as the card for their high end "Multimedia Gaming" computer. Yet, they continued to use low end sound cards for the rest of their computers and did not offer the MX300 as an independent option. In their most recent PC Magazine ad, I noticed that they started using an Aureal Vortex 2 8830 based card as the default soundcard in more of their systems. Their website now adds Vortex based card option for most PC's through a "multimedia package" for $199 (also includes Voodoo card). While this is far from pushing Aureal products, it is better to have the option in most of their PC's than none. Furthermore, in their higher end "Power" systems, they are now using the Vortex 2 card as their default sound card....not as an option. This is very good news for Aureal and chalks up one more major OEM who is using Aureal's cards for their systems. I am now hoping that they will expand their use of Aureal cards to not only include the Vortex 2 based card, but also to replace the current default card on their lower end systems, Creative AudioPCI Wavetable 3D Sound, to Vortex 1 based cards as Compaq and Dell have. Chris