I never was into Akais... I'm more of a Roland/Emu person... Not that I have much real hardware left anymore.. Damn you Arturia 
I picked up a Roland S-760, A Pioneer 6 stack SCSI CD-ROM drive and the 6 CD library of sounds from Roland for $200, $5 and $100 respectively. I used that for quite a while and then decided to move to Kontakt.
