Any reason not choose an Apogee Duet?

Has anyone compared the apogee duet 2 with audiophile dac's for fun. Also has anyone converted analog signal from turn table and phono stage preamp to digital file and then played it back thru Duet 2 and possibly another DAC of higher quality like a Berkeley DAC USB or something else considered pretty good. I'm wondering if the playback of a recording made from a record and a decent turn table has been played back via a great DAC and it you considered the results worth the time and effort taken to make the digital file in the first place. Meaning instead of paying say $25 for a 176K file, you made the 176K file from a record you bought at a garage sale for 1.00 and brought it home and put it on the old VPI record cleaning machine, found out there were no pops or scratches on this 1.00 record and sucessfully made the file as good as you could. WAS IT WORTH IT? So say you get good at it, and makes hundreds of files, that normally would cost upwards of 2K or more, clearly made your money back 4X over, is the sound good enough to take the time to do this? Or just spend the money on the files. Oh what about the 1000 records I have that are getting worn out from so many plays, sure would be nice to get a digital file of these before they are all dead, ya think. but is the machine Duet 2 good enough or should a higher end Apogee model be bought?