The -- wait a minute-- Haffler or something "bugle" is supposed
to be the current fave.

For transferring vinyl to cd a PC magazine had an article
about a specialty phono preamp in the reasonable price
range for that application. I'm spinning all this off the
top of my head. The "bugle is in an AudioXpress i can look up.
Warning: the Bugle is sold as a kit and the company has a few flavors.

For turntables check out Ebay: a Thorens is always nice.

Here in this forum (from way back when) there is a turntable
kit with an acrylic platen-- just right for modding.

It depends on how much you want to do with this: old style heavy
aluminum turntables are better than new flyweight ones IMHO.

Turntable modding has some bewts, mostly I think made by
Europeans. An example of that is in these threads as well.
maybe Wayne can help with some of this.

Lastly, don't go to Ebay first, even where I am they have
a resale shop with Reel to Reel Teac Sony and Pionner decks
plus turntables that have been rebuilt to working condition.
The place that's here in town has the reasle turntable sin their
resale record shop. So those are good to check out.

I did some vinyl with a turntable somebody gave me. I bought a fresh
Grado cartridge for it and some of those cute little headshell leads.

In this forum there's also stuff about "the sandbox" turntable
isolation system. The topic is pretty well covered here.

I'll look up that stuff if you have interest.