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Decent....weigh your options
This items ok. It does record at 48khz (CD Quality) which is the main thing. As a broke college student I was looking for an inexpensive way to run from my mixer to my laptop. Overall its a decent product, functionality and simplicity are pretty good. My main (and only I guess) beef with this product is that I cannot leave it plugged in when I power on my laptop. It may be because I have Vista. Other than that if you can't afford anything more expensive, you get what you pay for. If you can, purchase a USB Mixer or a FireWire interface. Way better quality.

Great item and can be monitored with the speakers
I got this after purchasing a competitor's similar device (iMic) and finding poor reviews from audio purists about that model. This Behringer model had good reviews and was a similar price to I got one to try. It works well and has more rugged construction.

When I first set it up, it did not allow monitoring except through headphones. On my Windows XP system, I went to Control Panel and opened Sounds and Audio Devices. Then clicked the Audio tab and changed the Sound Playback device to the usual system device instead of the USB device that was apparently setup when this was installed. Then the music that was being recorded played through the computer speakers fine and that setting stayed when I closed the program and restarted. This was using Audacity for recording.

Works Great - Use to record LPs to iTunes
This product works precisely as advertised. I use it to record my LPs to MP3 then import into iTunes. I have my old turntable feeding into a pre-amp, then from the pre-amp to this devise, which in turn plugs into one of my computer's USB ports. I use "Spin-it-again" software to capture the music files and save them to MP3 format. This set up was much cheaper than buying one of those USB turntables since I already had my old turntable. Good Luck.

no volume control
With Windows XP Home SP2, there is no volume control for recording. The default volume is too low to be useful.

I'm recording from a turntable piped through the phono input of an amplifier to the 'tape out' outputs, so there's no way to control the volume coming from the turntable. If the input is coming from something that has its own volume control, perhaps that would work.

Also, if your recording software supports ASIO, it might be possible to work around this with the asio4all driver. All the software I tried - Goldwave, Audacity, Kristal - doesn't support it though.

For me, this was $30 wasted.

Good for its price.
It isn't rich on features, but it gets the job done. If you're looking for a cheap recording device, this is fairly good for being only $30. It's not great as a system sound card, because it's pretty limited to the amount of work it can do, but if you need something to record with and already have a sound card, this should be great for you. If you're running Linux, it's supported in ALSA, but you don't have a lot you can do with it at a time. Overall it's good for what you're paying.