ADS Technologies RDX-150 - Instant Music USB Audio Capture Device - Mac/Win

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I got the product. It was inexpensive, however it just does not work well with Apple software. I contacted Tech support and although they were very helpful, we simple could not get the product to allow me to transfer records into music files.

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I have about 250 LP's from back in my military days, and have been searcing for a way to transfer them to Digital format in my laptop. Over the last couple of years I have bought two other "so-called" transfer untis, both which did not work, even after having my "I.T." person try and firgure them out. This unit was as easy as the intructions stated, literaly plug it in and play, record, transfer. Once you set the perameters and what you want and where to transfer it to, it does it everytime,
The biggest disadvantage in some ways is that you must play the entire album to record each, which takes awhile, but has brought back memeories as I listen to each song on each LP. This unit was a mere fraction of the cost of the other two units, software I purchased before. I highly recommend this unit to anyone!

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I'm transfer cassettes to CD's

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I've been using this for converting old tapes to mp3s. It has standard rca inputs, as well as fiber optic toslink. Works just as expected. Remember, the quality of the mp3 is dependent on the original media as well as playback device. Works perfect for what its intended for.

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[...] appears exactly as described. Now, I must purchase an MP3 capable device, and try my plug and play RDX-150!

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Works as advertized and is well worth the price. The box is plug and play and the capture software installed in no time. I was recording within ten minutes. The auto track split exactly right on the first tape but had two extra splits on the second tape I recorded. Correcting the extra splits was as easy as sliding the stop mark to the correct spot. Depending on your installed sound device, the monitoring feature may not always work so I would recomend a spliter so you can plug in headphones and the hookup cable to your tape or LP player. I found one in the [...].

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definately not a high quality electronic.

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The first one I bought was in 2006. I kept moving it from one computer to another till I wore out the 600 ohm RCA plugs on the back. By buying 2 more I will never have to move it again.

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Product was pretty easy to figure out. I don't have to start and stop the cassette/record to make each song a separate track, the software does that and it can search for the albums and put the names of the songs on too. Saves alot of time. The cable hookup was kind of confusing in the directions but I figured it out. I haven't burned the music to a cd yet, but I saved it to my pc to do at a later date.

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Want to use the product to transfer older LP's and 45 RPM records to CD from an existing turntable. When I ordered it, I was under the impression that it included a pre-amp. I was looking for a pre-amp to use with my sound card in the computer. There is a link with which to purchase a pre-amp, but it is no longer available from the manufacturer (assuming the product because the link wouldn't work). Very disappointing because I had to resort to using an old amplifier that I wasn't too sure of. Wife would kill me if I disassembled the entertainment center for my good amp. I do like how the software filters old noises, but it is very limited. I even purchased the software upgrade but there was no noticable difference in the upgrade except for allowing the saving of the tracks to .mp3 and a couple of others. The software is difficult to use because it seems very primative and makes mistakes while trying to edit the sound file tracks. The software is also limited to removing one item at a time from the sound file; i.e., pops/clicks but not the Clean/EQ. Am trying to experiment by saving one, reloading it and applying the other, but the software gives an error and closes. My advice is to save everything so as not to lose the time you spent recording. The software also seems to mix up the recordings and the CD Text information between tracks. The reason I gave three stars is the quality using only the Clean/EQ is good. I have been using another software to manually remove the Pop/Clicks. It also provides for the S/PDIF input and output but tnere are no cables nor written references.

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It is all it said it was, I use it to capture sermon's and load them to our website. It does have other uses as well

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I connect my PC and use it to listen to internet music channels on my surround sound system. The quality is excellent!

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easy to use

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This device did not work in Win7. I even had an audio engineer friend try to get it going. No luck. We tested it on my XP machine, and it performed just fine.

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If you are running Windows 7, the incuded Nero software is not supported, but Nero will sell you Nero 9 for an additional [$]That makes this little box kind of expensive.

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I had it set up in less than 15 minutes and had an audio tape digitized immediately. I had to download a free program in order to get it all set up and playing but the company website had suggested that so that didn't take too long either. I'm interested in enough quality to play on my computer or MP3 not room stereo set so I didn't play with adjusting quality. I'm not a computer wiz and it was pretty easy.

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excellent quality sound once I got the device to work ....or more to the point the programme Spin It Again

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My uncle in Miami has a tremendous amount of music on old vynal LP records that he just loves listening to. Recently, he purchased an iPod and uses it for his daily bike ride. After surprising him with the RX-150, he was absolutely overwelmed with joy when he learned that he was able to take his music from his LP's and move them to the iPod. The RDX-150 is a great product that I would definately recommend to anyone who needs to preserve thier old LP's, cassettes or 8-Tracks.

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Easy to use. I was doing test recordings within 15 minutes of opening package. Records to WAV files and it is easy to create MP3s. Easy to adjust recording levels and filters (clicks and pops etc.).For some reason software would not burn discs, had to use Windows Media for that but still learning the ins and outs.Getting another one for my dad to use. Packaged with all required cables.

Expertise: Novice

Problems Encountered: Software would not burn discs. Had to use Windows Media Player. Not really a problem for files automatically show up in WMP. Still five stars.