SC-1 Portable USB Soundcard
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How about fewer “Woot Offs” and staff processes refunds…Have filed FRAUD complaint with PayPal after waiting for over a month and several ignored emails…
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I wonder how much THD this has?
Sorry for the problems. I’m sending an email to CS to see if that will help.
I guess I don’t need this, since I have a Media Center PC with RCA inputs on the front of it!
Wonder what they do?! 
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lulz,converting analog to digital
I am not sure what this would be used for? Is it like something you can take with you to record stuff and then go home and upload to your computer?
I think you are refering to cassettes
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No I am asking what is this used for?
Hey, TT- no complaints or threats of lawsuits… well, a sorta complaint: I haven’t been getting e-mails about Woot recently. I had no idea there was a Woot-off going on, and no word from Monty and Mortimer. Is this a thing, or just an ambitious period for my spam catcher?
It’s used for DJing. DJ’s need two seperate soundcards so that the song they’re cuing up to be played next isn’t heard by the audience.
It is used to convert audio that you have in non-digital forms to something your computer can read. Like vinyl or cassette tapes. You may be too young to have any, but if you do you can now put them on your MP3 player.
This can solve three problems.
One, sometimes the sound card in your laptop, desktop , or mobile device just sucks. This will upgrade the sound quality if you want to, for example, record from an external source.
Two, even if you have a decent sound card with the input you want, the internals of computer cases are notoriously noisy from an electromagnetic point of view because of all the components packed in there. Discerning audio types will use a USB audio interface like this to move the analog-digital conversion outside the computer case and farther away from all the EM interference and noise inside the computer.
Three, this thing apparently has a phono preamp built in. If you have a turntable and it doesn’t have its own built-in phono preamp (and most don’t), there needs to be a phono preamp somewhere along the line before you plug it into a line level input like a receiver. (Receivers stopped including phono preamps when turntables stopped being in every home.) Because this USB interface has a phono preamp, a turntable can be plugged in directly to it so you can digitize vinyl albums with no extra hardware.
Heck I might even buy one, at $25 that’s tempting.
Edit: All that and the point above about the two sets of inputs being useful for DJs.
All the funny little blurbs on woot are cute and all but clear cut descriptions on what things are for would be really helpful. You had a home theater system that boasted wifi recently but I couldn’t figure out it that meant I could hook the speakers up wirelessly or what. Can we get better real descriptions? Like this, I had no idea it’s a dj tool. I would buy more if I understood the products better. By the time I research them they are often gone.
Check spam for sure. But also go to Your Account (linked in the top-right) and check your settings. Can’t hurt to deselect everything, log out, log in, and select everything again. Just for grins.