Sound card and dual line in.

[geelsu]

Hi all,
I am pretty much a novice with sound cards, but not with stereo equipment in general. My concern
is the left and right channells. ON the back of a cassette deck, tuner, turntable, etc you have a line-out
for left and right channels. On the sound cards I have seen, you have a single line-in. I have found
a spliter and have my tape deck's two line-outs going into this single line-in. I'm trying to convert my
cassettes to CD. Anyway, question, are there sound cards that offer dual line in? Or how good is a
single in-line on a sound card at reproducing that stereo surround-sound left and right channel effect?
Thanks
George

 

[DS_Sultan]

Almost all newer sound cards do a great job of L/R seperation. If you have a 1/8th inch stereo to RCA cable you will get great results. I do it all the time. Although I use a little stereo amp and use the headphone out to the line in.

Give it a try and see what you get.

 

[vox]

Consumer soundcards generally have 2 types of inputs; 'mic in' which is usually a 1/8 mono jack, and 'line in' which is usually a 1/8 stereo jack like a headphone jack. The type of cable that you usually get with a discman, the stereo 1/8 to dual mono rca is what you need to connect a tape deck.

 

[geelsu]

Thanks guys. I appreciate your help. It is nice to placed on the right road, even if you don't
always know what's between that point and your final destination.