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Connect your turntable? You're dating yourself...... Unfortunately, most of the new surround pre amps and receivers do not have facility to connect a turntable to them. However, it can still be done. A turntable requires a phono pre amp stage that contains what's known as the RIAA equalization curve. The phono pre amp not only boosts the signal coming from the phono cartridge but does some tonal tailoring as well. If you find a surround receiver that has a phono pre amp, then of course you would be good to go. If not, then there are several companies that make outboard phono pre amps that can be introduced into the circuit simply by plugging the outputs from the turntable into one end and the pre amp out into an unused input on the receiver. These usually come with a small power supply as well. One suggestion to you if I may, be certain to get a receiver with 5.1 and DTS capability. With regard to your question about putting vinyl onto CDs. You bet you can, and with excellent results. Depending of course upon the condition of you record albums. I have a large vinyl collection, much of which you cannot get on CD, so making them myself is the answer. You can record them as wav files usually with the software that comes with the computer. The drawback to this is that there are no splits between the tracks, unless you sit there and record each song as an individual recording which is a pain. I use a program called Audiograbber which splits the tracks on the CD based on the amount of silence between the cuts on the album. Works ok, you have to futz with it a little to get it dialed in so it doesn't make a split in the quieter passages of a given song. Overall I think you'll be very surprised at the results, depending on the peripheral equipment used to make the recording.
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