Tape Trail

Con bay!

86.144.124.98

Do not trust this advert in ebay! Item number: 190158648239 offering you an upgrade so you can connect your hi-fi using usb. Even if this is a genuine advert anyone can simply connect their hi-fi by simply connecting the output of their tape deck to the imput of the sound card and record using windows media player so still no additional software to install. Who is the person trying to con? and what a rediculous price to pay. Also anyone who owns a pc would not find it too difficult to install one disc such as audio cleaning labs and once installed can modify the quality to suit their needs at will. Sorry but these kind of adverts distress me because they take advantage of the vunerable people out there who may think they are gaining something and paying through the nose for it when infact what they are seeking is already available to them. There should be easier methods to convict those criminals who abuse ebay.
Sam.

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not to be outdone!!!! - REL54 19:09:41 11/03/07 (0)
here is a turn table that has a tone arm that is self decapitating!! That's right! When the record is finished playing the tone arm returns to it's rest and "CUTS ITSELF OFF"!!!!!!!!

Skeptical? Read it for your self.

http://www.firststreetonline.com/product.jsp?id=76209
- severs it's own self (Open in New Window)
I see no one bidded -nt - chris_w 10:30:06 10/13/07 (0)
RE: Con bay! - Steerpike 11:05:12 10/08/07 (0)
I wonder why they don't offer it for cassette machines???

I agree though - they are likely just hiding a very ordinay & cheap, universally available USB ad/da box inside your recorder.

If you have some skill with the soldering iron, you can buy the usb ad/da converter chip from Texas Instruments for a few cents. It requires no engineering skills to use, other than some capable soldering since the chip is quite small. So cheap are they that TI sent me 5 as free samples just to play with.
I suspect they're selling an inexpensive product for a huge markup - soundnut 07:39:39 10/08/07 (0)
Something like this. The Behringer unit sells for about $30-$35. The Edirol (Roland) version is about $60. There are some pro-grade USB & Firewire interfaces that sell for much more, but I doubt that's what you'd get from that seller.

Depending on your soundcard, you may indeed be better off with one of these USB units. My Edirol UA-1A does a great job of supplying the computer with good quality, dead quiet audio. Some soundcards sound pretty crappy. Especially the built-in motherboard audio, which can range anywhere from fairly good to God-awful.

The Edirol and Behringer units require no driver installation under Windows, by the way. They use the already-present ASIO drivers.

The fact that they're not telling you just what the Hell they are going to send you is a big red flag, though.

Cheers,
Bobbo :-)

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