I laboured under the impression that an earlier ATM discussing audio interfaces was about gizmos to attach to the line-out of your hi-fi and plug into your laptop via USB – until I saw all those weird jack plug input sockets – shock horror, they are for microphones and geetars!!

What I currently have is a little noddy thing that takes a stereo line level output and sends it out to a USB I can plug into a laptop to record straight into Audacity and save from there as wav files. It’s OK I suppose (I’ve done a few relatively OK needle drops that way) but it’s a really plasticy little thing and has limited controls bar a dodgy looking switch to change from MM to MC cartridge sources.

Shirley, there must be a neat gadget I can get to do the same job, only with far better quality?

Any help most welcome.

Calling @fentonsteve and others!