Has anyone seen or tried this out? From the review and the concept it sounds like something which might be very very useful.

Thoughts?

http://www.spankrecords.com.au/reviews/xitelInport.asp

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Meh

For the price, you'd almost be better off saving up for a pro-sumer sound card.. (or something that doesn't record like shit).
Other thing is, that usb devices like that generally take up some cpu power, how much I do not know.

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Don't take me too seriously.

i would say it dose sound like a very promosing product... but i dont know if I would buy it...

But if you have $160 dollars burning a hole in your pocket and your computer has the RAM to support it i dont see why you shouldnt give it a try

USB interfaces (unless USB 2.0) are very limited in bandwidth. where as a soundcard is straight into the motherboard. i would just get a really high quality soundcard, ex. SB audigy 2 platinum, and just use the RCA jacks on the drive. i also use this card as my midi input, and have no problems with it. i know some people dont like sound blasters but mine works fine.

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AZWETHINKWEIZ

Keep in mind that that's $160 AUD (Aussie Dollars) .. Works out at about $100 US ...

ah, didnt notice that, cuz that Sound Blaster is like $200 US, so maybe that is a pretty good deal, if anyone has it id like to know what they think of it.

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AZWETHINKWEIZ

Id go with getting a really high quality sound card personally...

Or you could make something like that for about a fiver over here

tezz