Xitel INport Deluxe [Record From Your Stereo to Your Computer]

Xitel INport Deluxe [Record From Your Stereo to Your Computer] | LAPTOP USERS

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	Xitel INport Deluxe [Record From Your Stereo to Your Computer] Windows \| Xitel, 2006 average customer review:based on 51 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

INport lets you record all of your favorite vinyl records, tapes and other music from your home stereo into your computer. Archive them, turn them into MP3s, or use a CD burner to make your own CDs! INport turns your desktop or notebook into a powerful recording studio in seconds.

Xitel INport Deluxe [Record From Your Stereo to Your Computer]

Xitel INport Deluxe [Record From Your Stereo to Your Computer]
The product performs as advertised. The patch cord from stereo to computer is long enough to stretch across two rooms, and delivers good quality sound reproduction. The manual is easy to understand, and I learned the editing technique with very little stress.

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I purchased this for the sole purpose of transfering tapes onto cds. The tapes are roughly 25 years old and are of artists that are not considered mainstream so finding cds of these groups are very hard to find. Having played with the program a few times I got the hang of it and the three steps are easy to do. The cd I just burned sounded great and a family member couldn't believe that it was a copy from a tape.

There is a two things laptops owners should know before purchasing this. I found this information in the troubleshooting section.

1. No other programs should be running and that includes virus checking programs. (This effects the data flow)
2. The data flow can be severely effected by the power management of the CPU.

I didn't read the manual to the end. So the first time I used the program I found that there was a humming sound in the background of the recording. When I used the de-click program it found over 200,000 clicks. After reading over the troubleshooting guide I realized that those two things may have affected the recording. After turning off the virus protection program (wasn't connected to the internet) and adjusting the power management I re-recorded the tape and didn't hear the humming like I did before and the de-click program only found like 8,000 clicks. Even though the number of clicks were high it clean it up nicely. Overall it is a good program to use and will be well used.

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Good Product

Xitel INport Deluxe does work well and is very simple to set up and use. My problem was the input from the older stereo I was using it on was at too high a level and causing distortion. It would have been useful to have some adjustable attenuation built into the interface. I ended up running the cables through an old Radio Shack audio mixer which knocked the signal down to an acceptable level.

I am hanging onto this useful device. I think it is very straight forward and useable by most people with a basic knowledge of PC and audio (like, how to plug it all together and install the software). However, if I had it to do over I would have bought a less expensive interface (USB external sound card) and purchased Roxio and a mixer to have more flexibility.

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Do One Thing and Do it Well, Wish for MP3 Conversion

This product does one set of tasks and does it very well - transfer the analog audio signal from LP or Cassette player into digital signal, edit it to reduce noise (called "Clicks and Pops" in the product lingo), and convert it into a Wave file which you can transfer to iPod or burn into a CD. The only issue I have is that the resulting Wave files usually are HUGE (300-400MB for one side of cassette). I had to buy and use another software to convert Wave files into MP3 files (~60% smaller) and store away the old Wave files to save hard disk space. I wish this product software can allow me to get the final files in MP3 format or other formats that have smaller file size than Wave.

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If No Sound, Read On....

The product is very easy to use with easy instructions and easy setup but I was having a problem getting sound from the files I was creating from the product even though I had done just what the manual had suggested and checked my volume settings, cable and equipment settings a million times! However, I won't give the product a bad rating because I believe the product does what it says. Tech support however is another story.

PROBLEM: ALL of my cassette players have only 1 set(pair) and not 2 sets of RCA jacks. They are labled on my cassette player as: CD/Line Input Jacks(CD/Line In). That was the problem! While I have In-Line for the computer, I needed Line-Out for the cassette players! All my cassette players only have Line-In, so the Xitel product will not work. Unless, you want to buy another cassette player with dual RCA jacks.

SOLUTION: I had to reluctantly return Xitel because it did not support my cassette players due to lack of Line-Out RCA jacks. I only had one set of RCA jacks (red and white) and that was for the Line-In. So instead, I had to buy an audio cable with 1/8 miniplugs on each end, one to plug into the Line-In(blue slot) on the computer and the other minipug to plug into the headphone slot in the cassette player. IT WORKED!!!! Now I am finally getting SOUND!

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