I had a review sample a while ago. That thingy is a nice gimmick, but for my taste not good enough - especially in terms of price/performance. And its analogue loopthrough connection picks up quite a bit of noise, plus the drive itself is quite noisy as well.
Well when I saw that it just feeds its signal to your computer's sound card, I thought it must be just a gimmick. If it's going to use your sound card to do all the real work, you might as well pick up a nice old, high quality cassette deck and the line out to the soundcard.
Yup, that's it. The only thing one could possibly miss is the fairly convenient software control of that thingy, but quality-wise it's no match for a real hifi tape deck. Neither feature-wise, 'cause it completely lacks Dolby (B/C/S/HX Pro whatever
) support as well as support for recording on anything other than "normal" position tapes (chromium and metal tapes are supported for playback, though).
I guess I am missing something because I don't see a reason for a "PC" casstte deck when all you need to do is use a regular hardware cassette deck to the line in and line out of your computer to accomplish the same thing.
Line out of the cassette/line in of computer/ADC/process the signal in the digital domain/DAC/Line out of the PC to recorder line in to record the signal
Oh, come on Rickster - you'll never become a proper geek, if you approach things from the sensible side like that!
Yeah,I know man.Whatever could have gotten into me ?
Not being the sharpest knife in the drawer I am always looking to keep it simple to avoid confusion on my part
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