Griffin Turntable Connection Cable with Grounding
The cable serves as the connection from the 2 RCA jacks on a turntable to our stereo mini-jack input and also provides a connection for turntable's grounding wire. Some people find a buzz on their recording. The simple way to eliminate the buzz and record the true sound of the album is to connect the ground wire to the Turntable Grounding Cable.
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Griffin Turntable Connection Cable with Grounding Reviews
I even tried the Griffin unit on a MAC tower at work. A second e-mail to Griffin received the reply of "Some MAC's develop problems with the drivers for the USB system preventing certain devices from working properly.went on to suggest my MAC needed a new USB card etc. Do yourself a favor. I tried this, however the unit still did not work. A few days later,I tried to use it and it stopped working altogether. Sending an e-mail with those results received no reply from Griffin. A lot of money for a product lasting less than twenty hours of use.
Buy a good pre-amp and the cables to connect to the audio inputs on your computer and forget the Griffin Turntable Connector. The Griffin unit worked well for several hours (however, it does NOT have the RIAA curve converter built in like a good pre-amp would) then began to sound distorted. An e-mail to Griffins help department stated that the unit couldn't go bad or quit working and told me to try different USB ports on my computer. It did not work on it either. I purchased the Griffin Turntable Connector to use with my Technics turnatable and my iMac G5 to rip a huge album collection to AIFF files. There is nothing wrong with the computer- every other accessory works all the time.
The signal coming out of the turntable is simply way too weak to provide a decent signal for recording without a preamplifer in the setup. I connected the turntable to my old stereo receiver, and plugged the iMic into one of the receiver's tape recorder outputs, and voilalots of signal strength and very clean recordings, no white noise whatsover. I attempted to use this cable with the Griffin iMic to connect my turntable directly to my G5 iMac and import some of my old vinyl LPs. However, this setup was not able to produce anything close to satisfactory recordings, despite tweaking the settings in the Finyl Vinyl software provided with the iMic and the Mac's Sound control panel. I'm 30 bucks poorer, but wiser for the experience. Direct connection of the turntable to the computer would have been more convenient, but the results are not satisfactory to even a casual listener, (such as myself). The recorded signal was very weak, even with input gains maxed out, and even worse there was an intolerable amount of white noise (sound like rushing air) in the recording.
I was ecstatic to get some of the obscure albums off vinyl and into a digital format finally. Works perfectly for its purpose. It worked perfectly. I had no problems with this product.
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