Who would actually do this? You *may* be awarded *up to* 150k? Then, maybe, possibly up to $1M for two years. Who kind of crazy person would take that gamble? Your first year costs might barely be covered, then you might have a chance to win in the "make a modest profit" lottery!? Do these figures seem crazy to anyone else, or have I lived in San Francisco too long?

Could be an engineering schematic for their new rail system.

If you have $10 and a soldering iron, you can build a simple voltage divider network, and use that to attenuate the "line out" from your turntable to levels that are appropriate for your "mic in" port. For example, take a 9k ohm and 1k ohm resistor and go across the common and signal wires on your line out, and take the connection between the 2 resistors as the input to your mic in to get 1/10th the voltage of the "line out". These are almost certanly not the right values for the job, but the principle is the same, and will allow you to eliminate the clipping problem.

Ok, great. 550 watts is approximately equal to 75 horsepower... Did they really need to include that? And that's before the energy is converted from electrical to mechanical, so that is, in fact a completely useless number. I understand goverment reporters not fully grasping units of measure, but slashdotters?