Food for thought, since you're all talking abou turntables:
Sony turntable with hi-res capability
And my choice, based mostly on the fact that it's "back to basics" and produced independent of big corporations:
U-Turn orbit
Looking forward to your thoughts on these.
The Sony sounds very interesting, mostly in that it promises HiRez output right to USB input. I wonder how that would compare with an old analog turntable being recorded into a 24/96 sound card on a PC? Of course, you won't need a sound card with the Sony TT, but it sure would be a lot simpler.
The price? That will be interesting to see. But again it brings up an interesting question. Just because you have an LP source, does that really mean you have a "HiRez" source?? I've recorded in LP's to my PC at 24/96 and when I looked at the files of some wav's recorded this way, on some there is nothing over 16-20kHz.
I guess there's no way to know what the audio quality is of the source used to generate an LP.