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Title: iMic fair for the money, marginally useful
Review: I use the iMic on my G4 Mac, for an extra headphone output. The fidelity is slightly lower than the G4's built-in audio but it's a quick switch from speakers to headphones during auditioning. The latency of the iMic is so long (>100mS) that even single channel recording is practically impossible if you attempt to monitor the signal while recording. For voice recording, it's probably a useful tool.As a laptop WinXP PC audio device, it's totally useless. The iMic makes sputtering, glitching noises continuously on my 1.6GHz P4 laptop. The response from iMic's tech service was that some laptops have noisy USB ports. I've sucessfully used several other USB audio devices without problems on the same computer. I've tried the iMic on my desktop computer with the same, noisy, results.I think this is probably an interesting device for Mac hobbiests, but it's useless for semi-pro audio use and totally useless for PC users.
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