I did a search on the Plusdeck2 and found a lukewarm review under PCMag. And a bad review here

Briefly put, it introduces the convenience of a tape deck occupying a 5.25" slot in your computer. The cassette loads like an auto cassette player, end-in. Apparently the deck cannot recognize the different types of cassette media, more sophisticated shelf units distinguish between standard and low-noise tape bias. More important than this, it doesn't come with Dolby noise reduction. The software it comes with is supposed to recognize the gaps between tracks on cassettes so that you pop in a cassette, the computer plays it, and turns out separated tracks such as a CD would come with. This would be a big timesaver if it works. I purchased an AIWA unit which was supposed to do this with LP to CD conversions, and long story short, it didn't work for me. I think the automatic track recognition works when you have songs separated by silence, and doesn't work when you want to break up Symphonies by movement, or where concept albums dovetail the outros of one track with the intros of another.

As to my comment that LP to CD takes more finagling, you have the extra noise with LPs, the problems with skipping on older well used records, and if you do not have an amplifier you need a pre-amplifier to handle the signal output of the turntable, which is a different level from the signal output of a cassette player. I tried a preamp and got a low level tone which I couldn't completely filter out, so my final setup had me connecting the LP turntable to a standard shelf amplifier and drawing the signal from the headphone jack. I've been satisfied with the sound I can capture this way.