Laptop Auto Computer Tuner

Great inexpensive tuner for my Auto Harp!

Was looking for audio speakers for the system tied into the computer, tuner, everything else that wasn't tied to the home theatre system. These are perfect. Clean sound, clean bass.

After watching the review from Audioholics, I knew I was buying the best amp. This is an integrated amplifier...meaning it has a preamp and power amp in the same unit. There is no tuner (receiver). You can connect a turntable, tuner, and CD. It also has an optical and coax inputs but the coolest thing is the USB input. I ran a 20 ft USB cable to my Mac. There are instructions to download and install a USB driver which was easy. So here's the cool part. You change the sound preferences in your computer to the newly installed USB driver. On the Yamaha, press the Pure Direct button. Back on your computer, fire up iTunes and enjoy. This USB/Pure Direct configuration bypasses the computers sound card and plays the music as the sound engineer intended. I have the sample rate for the USB drive set to 48kHz (via the Audio MIDI) which is the most common frequency used by sound engineers. The Yamaha supports two sets of speakers. I have four beefy JBL's connected with a big Polk sub-woofer. The sound is crystal clear.

I bought 2 of these to go with my new computer. I wasn't sure that the large size of the monitors would work for my space but they are, in a word, fantastic. I must admit that I've been a Samsung fan for many years now and I find that their products are a great value. They are not the cheapest but for the price they are the best. Image quality beats their competitors for all video devices. The only complaint I have is the HDMI cables that came with the monitors are cheap and seem to cause colours to bleed. I replaced them with better cables and the problem seems to be fixed. It took me a while to figure out how to pair a remote with a given monitor but now that I got it worked out it's all good. I would recommend these to anyone. They would be especially good for someone with a small space for a computer and a TV. They really are TVs without a tuner but if you use internet services like Netflix or cable TV a tuner is useless anyway

I've installed this tuner in my ancient HP Pavilion DV6000 laptop with Windows Media Center installed, and it's working flawlessly. The only minor thing is that Windows 7 won't recognize the tuner automatically, and therefore you'll need to install the drivers manually plus reboot the machine at the end of the installation process. If you already have the Windows Media Center configured with a different tuner then you will also need to manually run the TV setup again which includes providing the zip code, scanning for the channels etc. The dual tuner eliminates the need to change the channel to record something while you're watching a different channel. I've not noticed any performance issues when WMC was recording two channels at once, and this is running on a 2007 laptop with 8Gb of memory. In summary, this is a must have product if you are using Windows Media Center.

I bought this tuner to use with my laptop. I got rid of cable about 6 months ago and built my own antenna. I was able to get all the local stations that I wanted. The only thing I was missing was a dvr. I bought this tuner, plugged it into my laptop, and windows media center did the rest. Now I can use my laptop as a dvr. It has worked flawlessly so far.

This tuner is excellent

A neat variation of the tuner.

This is a great tuner. It works very well.

It is very useful and I am getting use to it. It's different from the laptop computer. But I like it. Thanks.