USBPhonoPlus v2 - USB Audio Interface with Stand-Alone Phono Preamplifier

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The Way to Copy LP's

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USBPhonoPlus v2 - USB Audio Interface with Stand-Alone Phono Preamplifier

The USBPhono Audio Interface and a turntable is all you need to copy your classic LPs to CD. I've copied about a dozen so far and its worked perfectly. Plug your turntable audio into the USBPhono and the USB Phone into your computer USB connection, load the free Audacity audio software and you're ready to go. The set-up was trouble free. Use any software to make the CD. Nothing could be easier.

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price(s) | 381 days ago at

USB Phono Plus 2 + CD Spin Doctor = PERFECTION

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USBPhonoPlus v2 - USB Audio Interface with Stand-Alone Phono Preamplifier

The USB Phono Plus 2 is the rare device that promised simplicity and perfection and actually delivers. It's easy to set up and even easier to use. The Audacity software that ship with it pales in comparison to Roxio's CD Spin Doctor, which I highly recommend as well. Now my LP's will live on in their digital afterlife! I cannot say enough about this product.

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price(s) | 516 days ago at

Best product out there for what it's intended!

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USBPhonoPlus v2 - USB Audio Interface with Stand-Alone Phono Preamplifier

My goal has always been to be able to transfer into digital format, all types of analog archives I had: vinyl, tapes, some DAT tapes, and even the audio part material I wanted to rescue from some old TV content I had on some old VHS tapes. And my constant frustration has always been the same: I had to settle with either one of the two only two options I could find in the market.
One was to go the simple way, connecting directly any of the audio equipment through the built in audio input of a computer and use its own built-in A/D converter to obtain the transfer. This method never left me satisfied because somehow at some point of this "chain" some quality of sound was alway lost (may be a stereo pin jack for the connection was not as good as using an RCA stereo cable; or bypassing a turntable through a home preamp/receiver in order to convert phono signal into line signal carried also some slight amount of sound deterioration - may be just from the fact that middle priced average home

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equipment just works like that; or even the computer's own built-in A/D converter may not be the best quality available out there in the market).
So my other option if I wanted to insure best sound quality possible in carrying and converting the analog sound into digital, was having to go all the way to high end professional type of equipment sound cards or external interfaces, whose cost I found practically out of range for what I wanted to do; as besides the functions I needed, these type of devices usually also include a lot of other features that are useful only for musicians or studios (like XLR type inputs and outputs, mono channels, balanced, unbalanced, MIDI connections, bus through routhers ins and outs, etc.).
So, if you feel trapped in the same kind of crossroads and you are a type of user like me with those exact same needs I have, allow me to honestly and sincerely highly recommend you ART's USB PhonoPlus V2. Being very used to permanently purchase electronics and devices on the internet, to find out late that they don't work as expected and ending up always having to return them; while skeptical though still intrigued by the features this product declared, I risked to gave it a chance and purchased it to give it a try. And to my surprise it turned out to become one of those rare finds I run into only once in a while.
This product is a gem, and the cost/benefit of what you pay for versus what you get, I can say it's the best one I've ever found out there in the market.
It comes with exactly the types of inputs that you need for these types of tasks, not more, not less. There's dedicated line in, phono in, and even Toslink digital. And it shows (actually - sounds!) that the manufacturer has picked really good components for the internal circuitry; as the sound you obtain when you digitally record in your computer, is a crystal perfect impeccable copy of whatever you can hear in the analog source that is reproduced.
The rest is all up to you in "post sound processing", depending on however you best like to do your own sound cleaning/restoration and using whatever best software suits you for your taste; but you can rest assure that at least the "raw master" digital sound format you will "capture" with this device will have nothing to envy to the one you could get using a high end recording facility.
I'd like to honestly commend the ART people for thinking, developing and putting out a product like this. Completely satisfied customer here.

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