23 Jan
2007
23 Jan
'07
12:04 a.m.
One problem with using your stereo instead of a separate pre-amp, is that if you have cable-TV hooked up to your VCR, for example, and your VCR hooked to your home theater, then you will get a hum. I can't tell you how often I grabbed a track back in the bad old good old days of napster and heard the hummming/buzzing. It was a pain to unscrew the cable every time I wanted to record a record. (hehe, typing record a record amuses me for some reason). I like these USB units, or the one with the built-in pre-amp because it just cuts down on the wires and the amount oc circuits that the signals are traveling through. Anyway, looks like a cool unit. I'll probably by one as soon as I pay off my computer :D jr