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12" 4-ohm shallow subwoofer * five-sided polypropylene cone with rubber surround * shallow-design basket * power range: 90-380 watts RMS (1,500 watts peak power) * frequency response: 18-2,000 Hz *
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This Premium Grade 24K Gold Digital Coaxial RCA 75-ohm cable (Orange ended RCA) is designed to send a digital audio (Stereo, 5.1, 6.1 etc...) signal from almost any digital audio component out there to another, such as: DVD Players, Cable Boxes, HDTVs, Replay TV Boxes, Satellite Receivers, and even some Gaming Systems. These premium grade RCA cables are built to a very similar spec as a Monster Cable.
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The PlusDeck 2 is a full-logic cassette deck for your PC. Use it to archive your old cassette tapes of 80s hair bands into digital media files for playback on your PC. Or better yet, archive your favorite audio files or streams onto cassette - perfect for playback in your '78 Midget that is still not sporting an in-dash CD player. (Those of you still in the 8-track days will have to keep waiting for a PC-friendly solution I'm afraid...) Myself, I see the PlusDeck as the ultimate in retro-cool PC mods. Add a CoolerMaster Musketeer for the analog gauges, and you've got some nice old-school sweetness in your modern day gaming rig.
Customer Reviews:
The ONLY problem is Serial Port!!.......2007-10-17
Excellent product except that what if your PC doesn't have serial port to control the hardware from its own software, I've tried the USB to serial port converter but it seems doesn't work with this converter, I'm going to buy PCI serial port card and I hope it works.
Weigh the costs........2007-01-26
I'll preface this by noting that I do not own this hardware. From all indications, this is a sensible product and it seems pretty intuitive (though anytime special software is involved, your risk of frustration invariably climbs). At any rate, the concept is a great idea: a simple means to update--NOT upgrade, mind you--old, magnetically-oriented music. Here's the catch, though.
You may not need this as much as you thought. Consider that many songs which originally made it to commercial tape back in the day are increasingly becoming available online for purchase as singles for 99 cents each. And the sound quality of purchased MP3's will surpass that of your Motley Crue or Kenny Loggins tape.
So ask yourself, "How many single songs am I really going to want converted?" If you have 150 songs that you just have to have in digital format, this is probably the way to go. If, on the other hand, you have 50 cassette tapes with only one or two songs apiece that are worth archiving, see if you can find them online a la carte. At worst, calculate what you'd spend buying those same albums as CD's (don't forget about used copies that play just as well as new ones).
Of course, all that aside, there are other legit reasons you might want this piece of hardware in your PC:
-Convert all your friends' tapes for them and become a local hero.
-Convert your own songs, then start scavaging garage sales and thrift stores for other hidden jems (many of which will be priced around 25 cents).
-Record lectures, performances, etc. cheaply on a tape recorder, then transfer to MP3 for easy playback and CD-burning capabilities (consider, though, your recurring loss of sound quality going into the tape, then via the MP3 compression process).
Hope this gives some shoppers a few reasons to consider--or reconsider--the PlusDeck. Best wishes.
Go ahead and get it, you won't be dissapointed........2007-01-12
Got this for my wife for Christmas since she has 100's of books on tape. Boxes and boxes of 'em. Now she can load up the 80 giger IPOD through Itunes and go for weeks. I had one of the local hackers here at my work help me w/ the hardware install as the directions were a little unclear on some of the connections. I was beating my head on the wall for two weeks trying to figure out why I was getting a little echoing or double-talk-chatter for about a minute or two on a tape. Tried everything...recording in WAV, 256 bit, changing different things in Quicktime, modifying the WAV or MP3 file with wavpad and audicity...no luck in cleaning up the bad part. So I finally sent an email to Plusdeck and they recommended uninstalling the latest version of PlusDeck 2C (3.25) and installing 3.23. Whala! No more echoing/double talk. So far, so good.
Great gadget, awful software.......2006-12-31
I have been on the market for a long time (six plus months), looking for a tape2digital converter. What deterred me from buying the plusdeck since I first saw it was actually the white exterior and I could not figure out how it would fit with the decor in my study. Only when I read the detailed specs on the plusdeck website did I realise that it actually sits on an empty slot in your computer. Make sure you have an empty slot in your machine that can be popped out. And if your machine sits under your desk - like mine does - you might not mind the sore sight of the Tapedeck's off-white contours all that much after all.
The wiring is slightly confusing (the exterior wiring that talks to your sound card) but to be fair, it does not require a brainiac to get this puppy installed and running.
The software is at best KISS(keep it simple stupid) quality. Unfortunately, the latter adjective would be more appropriate to its design and functionality. Here are the icky facts on the software, to name a few:
1. I have converted about seventeen tapes so far and the software has crashed several times. This inevitably happens if you try to save a tape while it is running. So you cannot really save just one clip on a tape unless you monitor the whole process. For songs, that is fine, but for discourses/books on audio, it can be quite frustrating. I still am working on it, maybe there is a solution and I don't know of it yet.
2. The individual file saver is pretty much non-functional. Plusdeck saves files initially in a .wav format and then converts to .mp3 - so there is a bit of quality loss there. But beggars can't be choosers :) so for me the fact that I could save some rare audios before my cassettes deteriorated completely was good enough to get it.
3. Also if you stop the cassette player mid-way, your .wav file may not be converted to .mp3
You need an external program (I use Audacity) to cut and export files individually. So every time you insert a cassette, before you hit the 'play' button, create a folder and let Tapedeck save the large file to that folder, then use an external program to clip your audio files and save them as individual files to that folder. It is quite a tedious process if you ask me.
Tapedeck2 does have options to save individual files, but it has not worked successfully for me. The official (and I might add;-tiny) website has a disclaimer that individual files may not be split properly - methinks, for a reason.
Sure you can get y-cables and record directly to your sound card, but at least for me that would've added to the jumble of stuff in my study. So here I am with my Plusdeck and despite all rantings, am happy I invested in it:) Of course if you want to drop more moolah, you can always buy the Tascam CC-222MKIII (~$650), but for the budget and the options in the market (or lack thereof) I gave the Tapedeck2 3-stars. There really is nothing else out there!!
Great For Converting Cassettes To MP3.......2006-11-29
I have a Pusdeck 2c for a few months now and am loving it.
Pro's: Great for converting cassettes to MP3 format. Automatically detects gaps between tracks. Autoreverse. User-friendly software.
Con's: PlusDeck's user-manual is quite unclear, and has many mistakes. Installation of hardware can be a little tricky for PC amatuers. They could have made the unit look a little more sleek. Soundcard provided with the unit can cause minor problems with PC's onboard soundcard.
Product Description
From Old School to New School! It's now incredibly easy to convert your old cassette tapes to MP3 or WAV files. Transfer your old cassette music collection, or your children's educational tapes into a permanent digital record. The PlusDeck 2c is a full-logic cassette deck for your PC. Use it to archive your old cassette tapes of 80s hair bands into digital media files for playback on your PC. Qty: From Old School to New School! It's now incredibly easy to convert your old cassette tapes to MP3 or WAV files. Transfer your old cassette music collection, or your children's educational tapes into a permanent digital record. The P
Customer Reviews:
PlusDeck2 PC Cassette Deck review .......2007-11-05
Installation of the PlusDeck2 was not a big deal and it does do a good job of separating the songs out one from another. You can set it up to record while you step out or if you like the music or what ever you have on the tape you can do something else. If your wanting the same quality of the mp3 as the tape this is not for you. as it is playing the cassette the sound is great but when you play back the mp3 it is pretty bad. I think they need some static removal and something to fix the speed. The mp3 sounded more like Alvan (of the chipmunks) than it did of Dolly Parton or Rodger Whittaker. In voice cassettes the voice was just a little higher and faster than it should have been but otherwise OK
For saving cassettes of speakers or talks OK but for music I don't think so.
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