This is becoming circular - yes these do the job of putting it on your hard drive BUT they ship with the Audacity software (see above) and the fact remains that your soundcard will have a major impact on the quality of the result.

For this reason I still prefer to use my existing deck (Thorens with a Shure cartridge) and use the tape outputs of my amplifier.

I'm gradually getting to grips with CLEAN and the results are quite good but obviously not up to CD standard.

oggie