Posted by lon [ 209.103.193.200 ] on December 16, 2004 at 13:50:40:
You said:
Lon; are you saying the recievor takes the output from the soundcard and amplifies it just as it would a regular line level source? That sounds intiqueing.
I use Winamp exclusively but the learnig curve for me is wide and steep. I have a Pacifica outlet here from the university so I really never delved into the PC until I realised you could make music tapes from streaming audio.
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Sorry, I don't know if there's a way to change the text style and
make it bold like some of the other forums. 
The Yamaha is my only audio unit. I got it from www.buy.com
when they were being discontinued and on steep reduction. Total
cost with shipping was something like $80.
They turn up on ebay for this reason: people bought
at the steep reduction, cashed in the rebates and then
resell the units. I still keep an eye out for a backup
unit as a spare. The other day one sold for $41... it went on bid
at $29.00 plus $15 shipping. I missed the boat on that one.
Sometimes they don't come complete with all the cables or no
manual etc.
There is another model which is 5:1 called the RP U200
Those do not come on bid much and any out there are prob'ly
getting to within their useful purchase limit.
The Yam sets up in the usual soundcard to receiver
manner with adapter plugs. A USB connection provides for
control of the Yam by the computer including on/off.
There's several DSP's (digital signal processing) modes
such ass Hall, Church, Live and something called VDD.
The VDD is the flatest, so I usually use that.
The tuner portion has lots of presets. Yam comes with
a small external antenna for FM, but a straight wire
seems to work well for over the air broadcasts.
So you can set up your recording stuff ( I use
Audiograbber by Jackie Frank which is now free) to
select Line-In and digitize any of the four inputs
from AM/FM, TV. or stream.
My one problem would be locating a software
program to run on Linux.
Though this product got discontinued I expect to
see others surface using these techniques. Most reveiwers
said that the product was "before it's time." I'd add
that the documentation was very poor for anyone that just
wanted to turn the the thing on and use it as a radio and
the controls are not very inuitive, to coin a phrase.
Early on it was frustrating trying to figure out all the
button combinations... like setting up the presets on
a car radio without the book. 
You _need_ that manual
and the documentation on disk which sets up the Yam in
Windows.
That said, I'm hoping that another product cycle
will produce more units with these features.
My soundcard is a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.
My dream setup would be something like the
Audigy breakout box from Creative labs with these
receiver and USB control enhancements.
Wayne, can you say a bit about using crossover
software?
We'll get something going in here yet!
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