Good supplier good(ish) kit The supplier was faultless in supplying the kit which arrived ahead of time. I needed something to transfer vinyl to an ipod. I'd experimented with cables directly to my laptop's mic socket from an amp but found the sound quality dire and in mono. After shopping around on the web I went for the imic as it was about a half to a third of the price of most alternatives, despite reading the occassional negative review. It's being used with a laptop running XP and takes input direct from a... more info
Not quite what it seems - for some of us! Plugged the iMic in between my turntable and XP computer via a spare USB port and set the iMic switch to "Mic" to engage the units built-in pre-amp. With my own audio recording program (Roxio Sound Editor)it proved impossible to adjust recording volume down enough to avoid distortion. This also proved the case using the recommended Audacity recording software. The only item in the iMic package that proved worth having was the RCA to mini-jack connecting cable - now used between the turntable and the... more info
Good kit - good supplier I bought this as the laptop I use only has a mono mic. input. It performed "straight out of the box" with my Linux installation - no fiddling with drivers or re-booting - "it just works!" The supplier, Discount Discs, also gave excellent service - the iMic arrived on the day BEFORE the due dispatch date. Confirmation and information e-mails were helpful. It's a real shame that other companies [a certain broadband supplier for example] don't provide such efficient, friendly and cost effective... more info
Exellent item - provides full stereo input in Linux I bought this item to make recordings with my Sony ECM-DS70P stereo microphone in Linux. It's very light, very compact and is recognized automatically by the latest version of ALSA (1.015) running on PClinuxOS. Gives excellent stereo input into kwave (my recording software of choice) even at half volume on the input level. Very impressed, Sasha
