Possible cassette -> PC solution

Apr 15, 2005 at 8:11 AM Post #3 of 8
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.

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini
 
Apr 15, 2005 at 1:37 PM Post #4 of 8
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.
 
Apr 15, 2005 at 4:56 PM Post #5 of 8
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
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) support as well as support for recording on anything other than "normal" position tapes (chromium and metal tapes are supported for playback, though).

Greetings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini
 
Apr 15, 2005 at 5:10 PM Post #6 of 8
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

No ?
 
Apr 16, 2005 at 4:16 AM Post #7 of 8
Oh, come on Rickster - you'll never become a proper geek, if you approach things from the sensible side like that!
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Grinnings from Hannover!

Manfred / lini
 
Apr 16, 2005 at 4:25 AM Post #8 of 8
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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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