As one studies more about the specifics of sound,recording, analog vs. digital and the said recording of digital from analog it quickly becomes clear that having a good DAC (which can generally... not always... assumed to mean a good ADC and DAC), a good phono pre-amp, and good drivers for transferring the newly created digital signal to one's computer, all in a neat intelligently designed box, with minimal chance for noise or signal alteration is huge!! A $100k record player means little from a recording standpoint if you don't have a good pre-amp or DAC (ADC). I have spent the last 3 days trying to find something like this Futurtech device. It simply doesn't exist. It is the answer I have been looking for.
Plus,even if you don't care much about that little extra boost in quality over just running your sound into some line-in on a sound card, I'm sure that like, me you, you don't want to waste your life fiddling around with cables behind your computer, so there is a convenience factor too. And its portable so I can give it to other people to use or take it with me.
All the other boxes on the market I have seen either have musical instrument sound recording as the focus, or simply HD playback through a good DAC chip as the focus. The ADC recording focus on this looks divine.
