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Default External sound card

Will wrote:
Am about to embark on a project to convert about 50 of my dad's cassette
tapes to CDs. Converted a few LPs to CD several years ago, so I've got the
basics down okay.

My challenge this time around is that I need to drop the output of my
cassette deck to my laptop has there's no way my wife will let me
disassemble the stereo set up so I can position the cassette deck next to my
desktop computer. This'll be a few weeks' worth of work, if not more....
I'll do the "clean-up" and CD-burning on my desktop.

Sooooo... am thinking that an external sound card may be in order as I've
read that integrated sound cards on laptops leave much to be desired for
this particular task. Will test this theory out shortly.

In the meantime, any thoughts wrt decent USB (preferably USB-powered) sound
cards for this project?

-Will



http://www.turtlebeach.com/ has 3 external cards, the top one
supports up to 7.1 Dolby. They work very nicely and sound pretty good.
Better that what you will retrieve from a cassette most likely anyway.

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