Contrary to the uninformed Nail Yuri, I own this board recently and I'm delighted: Scanning from a cassette deck directly on the audio card with the RCA is nonsense: Audio cards powering its original computers have very poor. As a tape is not exactly a high-end product quality sound, we arrive at a formula: poor pitiful + = very bad. With Tape2PC platinum, visibly ION uses a preamplifier and a high-end noise reduction. The recordings take a new youth since the transfer. During my transfer I did not even have to use the normalization gain to find a sound worthy of the name. Very good product that I highly recommend to all my friends.