heya, I have some experience with converting vinyl to digital, and I agree, a lot of the filters do rip the soul out of the sound.

Also the sound quality is dropped significantly even with a good converter. Even if you have a lot of old vinyl, but it might be better (sound quality-wise and time-wise) to just re-buy the old albums as used on ebay as a CD and then rip them.

I too appreciate the sound of vinyl as vinyl, but trying to export that same sound is really tough even with very high-end equipment