[Hetmann]

I didn't buy any of the add ons. My vinyl collection is in pretty good shape. I was always pretty anal about how I handled my albums. Also internet sounds can be pretty good. I didn't really do anything with tape so you will have to experiment. One thing I did discover was the "normalize" effect. I rip my wave files at a fairly low volume so they don't saturate (just like tape) and then I normalize them to get them all about the same volume before I save or convert to mp3.

I encode my mp3s at 256K and have been satisfied with the quality.