Thanks for your reply Rikki ,
The Gem can read sound samples .
It's just that the Technics has this great Female soprano opera voice (it really sounds life like !! )it comes from one of the 4 extra Expansion boards I had fitted when I bought the KN 7000 several years ago !!
I'm still trying to get the hang of the Gem it has a different operating systm to what I'm used to !! so it's very early days for me to get to this advanced stage !!

regards ..........Giovanni