Title: DO NOT BUY: It's just a wire w/RJ11 phone jack & 1/8" audio plug
Product review: This is a rather expensive piece of wire, not a "Telephone Recording Device."You get a phone line splitter and a cable with a RJ11 phone jack at one end and a mono 1/8" mini audio plug at the other.If only it were so easy, but without isolating or current limiting circuitry this setup is unlikely to work, and, as a bonus, could damage your recording equipment. I tried it anyway by connecting the phone line to an iMac mic input and recording with Audacity software. The result was mostly inaudible and so noisy that Audacity's noise filter was ineffective. There was also plenty of noise on the phone handset which made conversing while recording very difficult.Other photos (elsewhere online, previously on Amazon, and in the instructions that come with the product) show a box in the middle of the wire. I assume this box contained electronics of some sort. Perhaps the 5-star ratings from other buyers were for a different item.
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