FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 1996--Turtle Beach is introducing a new 6X CD-ROM upgrade kit, the TBS-6700, featuring a 32-bit wavetable sound card, the Tropez32, based on the company's award winning Tropez audio technology. The TBS-6700 gives users high fidelity and real instrument sounds in a state-of-the-art CD kit.
Recognized for its award-winning wavetable sound technology, Turtle Beach recently expanded its multimedia product line with a family of CD-ROM drives and upgrade kits. The new TBS-6700 brings to the marketplace Turtle Beach's unique advantage in being able to combine its own high quality wavetable sound cards and CD-ROM products.
The TBS-6700 features a superfast 6X CD-ROM drive with an access speed of 195ms; 900,000 bytes per second transfer rate; and the Turtle Beach Tropez32 32-voice wavetable sound board with 1MB ROM. Also included in the kit are 14-watt stereophonic speakers and the latest CD titles from SoftKey, including Millennia; Infopedia 2.0, a multimedia reference library with thousands of images and recordings; educational software and games that include Bureau 13, Hell, Doom, Command, Math Rescue, Raptor and others.
"Users can now enjoy smoother animation, and high quality video and sound with the TBS-6700's wavetable card and high-speed 6X drive," said Martin Goldberg, president and CEO.
The TBS-6700 is currently available and has a suggested street price of $329.00
Turtle Beach offers a two-year warranty on the TBS-6700, as well as technical support seven days a week for users and resellers. The TBS-6700, as do all Turtle Beach optical drives and upgrade kits, comes with an Internet CD-ROM, which provides a tutorial on using the Internet, a tour of the WorldWide Web, plus free introductory access to America On-Line and Compuserve.
Turtle Beach CD-ROM products are currently sold through distributors and major chain stores such as Ingram, Merisel, Best Buy, Computer City, Future Shop and NeoStar. Turtle Beach also markets its products throughout Europe, Australia, South America and Asia.
Turtle Beach brings to the optical storage market the reputation it has achieved in sound cards to deliver high quality products. Turtle Beach is in a unique position as a vendor able to bundle its own brand-name wavetable sound cards and CD-ROM drives to meet the new MPC-3 standard established by the Multimedia PC Board.
About Turtle Beach Systems
Founded in 1985, Turtle Beach Systems, Inc. has achieved prominence in the PC multimedia industry with its award-winning wavetable sound cards. In November of 1995 Turtle Beach Systems expanded its multimedia product offerings with the introduction of a complete line of high-end CD-ROM products, including 4X, 6X and 8X drives, and changers.
Turtle Beach Systems is located at 5690 Stewart Avenue, Fremont, CA 94538; phone 510/624-6200; fax 510/624-6291; home page at http://www.tbeach.com.
CONTACT: Turtle Beach
Jacqueline Rindone, 510/624-6230
or
Lindsay PR
Mary Lindsay, 408/984-7242
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