This cool little gadget does what it claims and
does it very well. It's very small and unobtrusive and the sound
quality is very good. No hiss, noise, or other artifacts that I could
detect. Sounds as good as a CD to me.
You can just plug it in
and go (without the software) and it will work. But if you want to
really control your setup, then you'll have to load the software. I
would have given it 5 stars, but the software is a bit buggy. I got it
to work but it took some playing around. On my PC the logitech took
over as the default audio device. I went into the SoundMAX Control
panel and set everything back to my PC's internal sound. Then I used
the Logitech software to setup MusicMatch output to go to this device.
After twiddling a bit and rebooting my PC, everything finally settled
down and now it works like a champ. WinAmp, Windows Media Player, and
the many other audio programs I have now output through my PC speakers
(before they all went to the Logitech device) and now only Music Match
outputs to the Logotech device which is what I wanted.
The remote
is cheap and uses he plastic "bubble" keys, so you can get multiple key
presses sometimes, but once I got used to it, it worked fine. But I
programmed my main "learning remote" and now use that all the time,
reserving the small remote Logitech remote as a backup. You have mute,
play, pause, stop, previous track and next track commands available.
Note there is no power off. There is no power off switch on either
device (receiver or transmitter). Not a problem on the transmitter as
it draws power from the USB port and so will be off when your PC is off
(and vice versa). The receiver stays on all the time. I doubt that it
uses very much current, but I still would have preferred an on/off
switch
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