For those folks who have vinyl (old or new) and who might want to preserve the music in a digital format, I offer the following process for consideration:

I have an old Technics Linear tracking turntable with standard RCA-type audio outputs. I have the turntable connected to the PHONO input on my Onkyo Receiver.

I have one of the analog audio outputs on my Onkyo connected to a device called "Inport". This device has a standard USB cable as its output, which I have connected to a USB port on my dedicated "Music" Toshiba Laptop. My Laptop is running Windows 10.

I have a program called "Wave Corrector" which is loaded onto my Laptop. Wave Corrector has a recording program which offers a number of options for recording analog audio on to WAV files. Among the options is a sampling rate of 96 Khz at 24 Bits, which is my choice for recording music files.

Wave Corrector also has a "de-click" program for removing clicks and pops from the recorded files. Wave Corrector WAV files can also be saved as lossless FLAC files, which is my choice for the final file from the process.

I use a suite of programs called "Musichi" to add recording data to these files. I also use Musichi to play these files through my audio system.

Wave Corrector is versatile and relatively simple to learn to use, but it also offers a number of advanced options for working with files to improve the sound.

I have converted and cleaned a number of my LPs with what I consider to be rather remarkable results. In virtually every case, my converted and cleaned files sound significantly better than the original vinyl. Because I have all of my CDs ripped to FLAC files and stored on an external hard drive, I am then able to add these converted vinyl files to my library for easy playing.

I believe that Wave Corrector, Musichi, and Inport (by Xytel) can all be sourced on line for purchase.

I hope that the above overview is helpful to those of you who might be interested in converting audio files from vinyl, or other sources, to digital music files.

Happy Listening,

Art

I have passed this along to Opera Beau, the spousal unit. We are a Mac household but I assume the basics are the same. If we have questions, I will PM you.

BTW, we also own a Technics TT, a 1200 MkII.

Thanks for the tips!