Audio Mixer to Mac

I just bought a Behringer Xenyx 502 mixer for use with a Shure microphone. I just want to record vocals with it. I didn't think about the inputs from the mixer to the Mac until after I bought it. The mixer has two 1/4 out's. I bought a cable that has two mono 1/4 out to a stereo 1/8. The people at the store told me that wouldn't work, that the audio in on the Mac wasn't good enough quality for good recording. They suggested a USB imput device instead. That's not true, is it? The audio in is optical quality, isn't it?
Thanks!

The input may be a combined optical and analogue, I don't know the computer, but in any case the Behringer provides an analogue output and you have the correct cable. The line input on Macs is usually pretty good, though there is often a small amount of noise - you may very well find that it is insignificant. Give it a try: if you aren't happy then a simple analogue to USB interface will be absolutely fine - for plain stereo there is no need at all to go for an expensive FireWire interface (these are needed for multiple inputs).

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