Eiron wrote:

Mike Saunders wrote:

The thing is I have some old limited edition discs which have tracks
unobtainable elsewhere.


All the more reason for doing it properly.
A clean and possibly a wet playing on a decent turntable.


Great if you have one. I want to see if I am happy with the result
before investigating other options. The point here is that if I did
need to obtain high quality kit it would very soon become redundant
again, unless you know where I could temporarily obtain one from


May we ask what discs these are?

Back in the 70's I used to frequent a folk club where the artists often
had their own LP's for sale. I also have some promotional copy only
versions


If so, you could take an output from the top and bottom of
the volume control, which would be a better level and less
distorted than the speaker output.
Wherever you take the output from, check you don't have a live
chassis.


Would these need attenuating?

This sounds good but I think I will try the transformer suggestion
first as it will be quicker to implement

Thanks

Mike