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ADS Technologies RDX-150-EF Instant Music for Mac and PC | List Price: $50.99
Discount Price: $49.88
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Brand: ADS Tech
Binding: Electronics
Features: - Record Your Old LPs and Cassettes to Audio CD and MP3
- Save music as MP3, WAV, WMA and AAC iPod audio formats
- Burn professional quality CDs
- Capture from any audio source - cassette, turntable (with preamp), TV, radio, DVD
- Mac Users can use Instant Music with Garage Band or Sound Studio 2.1
SUPPRIZE it works well [Posted on 2008-03-28]
With some dough I was well pleased it works well as long as you get the spin it again softweare and usb connection older type is a pease of junck
Seriously flawed design makes this product a shaky proposition for many users [Posted on 2008-05-09]
This product is sold as an all-in-one, plug-and-play solution for unsophisticated users. The trouble that it doesn't deliver on those terms. It cuts too many corners.
Firstly - there's no built-in RIAA preamp. Most modern stereo gear is not set up to play vinyl and so doesn't include an RIAA preamp with its all-important gain stage and frequency compensation. True, most people with record collections will have an old amp with an RIAA stage built in, but what if they haven't? What if they threw it away when they converted to CDS? Well tough, they're going to have to shell out on some extra kit before they can use this product. Never mind, they'll probably be OK with cassettes. Won't they?
Well, maybe. The other problem with this product is that there is no means of adjusting the analogue input gain. Sure, you can adjust the volume level after the sound has been digitised, but if the output of your cassette deck or your vinyl preamp is too hot the sound will be distorted and there will be absolutely nothing you can do about it. Or if it's too quiet, bringing it up to the right level will bring up the noise as well.
Now, if you've got a sound mixer (as ADS suggest in the docs) you can deal with that. But the target market for this device doesn't have a mixer. They want a guaranteed-to-work plug-and-play solution, and I'm sorry to say this product simply isn't it.
RCX-150-EF is GREAT [Posted on 2008-05-18]
Within 20 minutes of receiving my order I was copying a Cassette. It worked so well I spent most of the day copying. It was very easy to use and did the job as it should. I only wish it could copy faster.
False advertising [Posted on 2008-07-17]
This product is advertised by Amazon as being for both PC and Mac, and it has a Mac logo on the packaging. However, as the website confirms and as I learned after opening the package (and making it unreturnable), it does not work with a Mac. They have no intention of ever making it work with the Mac.
Don't waste your money, unless you have a PC.
I tried to give it a no-star rating, but it wouldn't accept the review without at least one star. It was easy to use.
Works as advertised [Posted on 2008-08-10]
I read several reviews before I purchased this product with a common theme being the software being an issue. I had no issues with the software. Maybe they improved it. But it's very easy to use and I'm happy with my purchase.
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