Ingram Micro Selects Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card for Its Unbranded Systems Offerings.

YONKERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 1999--

Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. announced today that Ingram Micro Inc., has made the Turtle Beach(TM) Montego II(TM) audio accelerator available through its Frameworks (TM), Total Integration Services(TM) offering.

"Ingram Micro has partnered with Voyetra Turtle Beach for a number of years, and its management team has become accustomed to our high levels of service and responsiveness," said H.J. Lee, vice president of OEM sales for Voyetra Turtle Beach. "Moreover, the Turtle Beach brand and Montego sub-brand are synonymous with uncompromising quality. Considering the ever-increasing importance of computer sound in business environments whether for telephony applications or multimedia applications - audio reliability is a key factor in buying decisions."

The Montego II features a >97 dB signal-to-noise ratio; 18-bit high-resolution converters; DirectSound and DirectSound3D acceleration (96 simultaneous DirectSound audio streams); AC'97, PC '97, and PC '98 compatibility; support for legacy DOS-based systems; 64 hardware-based wavetable voices, with an additional 256 voices available via software synthesis (4MB upgradable sample set); A3D(TM) positional audio, and a hardware-based, 10 band graphic equalizer. It also supports downloadable samples (DLS) for custom audio patch playback. The Montego also ships with AudioStation(R) 32, which integrates CD audio, MIDI, and digital audio management into a singular modular rack interface. A retail version of the card, the Montego II Quadzilla, is expected to ship this spring.

Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM), headquartered in Santa Ana, Calif., is the world's largest wholesale distributor of technology products and services, and a leading provider of assembly and integration services with 1998 sales of $22 billion. The company and its affiliates operate in 31 countries and distribute more than 200,000 products to more than 130,000 resellers in 130 countries.

Voyetra Turtle Beach is one of the world's leading PC audio solutions providers, working with more than 150 leading manufacturers, distributors, and retailers such as Dell Computer Corp. (Nasdaq: DELL), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Sony (NYSE: SNE), Gateway (NYSE: GTW), Navarre (Nasdaq: NAVR), Ingram Micro (NYSE: IM), CompUSA (NYSE: CPU), Cyberian Outpost (Nasdaq: COOL), America Online (NYSE: AOL), Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), and Egghead (Nasdaq: EGGS). In addition to its OEM and retail sales, Voyetra Turtle Beach makes its entire line of products available directly to consumers via its e-commerce Web site (http://www.voyetra-turtle-beach.com) and in-bound call center (1-800-233-9377 or 914-966-0600).

For more information, write Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc., 5 Odell Plaza, Yonkers, NY 10701; call 800-233-9377 or 914-966-0600; fax [phone]; send e-mail to [e-mail]; or visit http://www.tbeach.com.

Turtle Beach and Montego II are trademarks of Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc. A3D is a trademark of Aureal Semiconductor Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged.