Well, recently I got a preamp for my turntable and a new needle, and
have been buying a lot of vinyl lately of music I used to like in my
youth that I only had on cassette, and recording records directly to
digital. It's nice having the actual record to enjoy the art /etc,
even if the music itself is just an mp3 file. However I am finding a
lot of these records, especially the ones on independent labels, are
out of print or never came out on CD, and cost quite a bit on eBay. So
I went back to my tape collection. Yeah I do really care about
preserving my collection, I'm an avid record collector.
It depends. If you're really going to transfer 1000 cassettes, you
must really care about preserving that collection, and anything that
will make the copies better with less effort surely is worth an
investment of what amounts to about an extra buck a tape by the time
you get the Dragon and a good tune-up job. If you were to have the
collection transferred even semi-professionally, it would probably
cost $25 or more per tape, a $24,000 saving. 