LPs to iTunes on a Mac?

Macdadtexas:

I don't have an outboard phono pre as such. I'm hoping to run whatever connecting cables are involved out of the headphone jack of my HT Receiver like I've done with the Xitel program on my Windows based machine. On the Xitel Inport Deluxe, there's a supplied RCA left and right channel into USB line included with some sort of step up device (a small grey box) wired in between the RCA jacks and the USB connector. I picked up a RCA left/right into stereo headphone jack adaptor and got very good "iTunes grade" recordings via this route on my other computer. I'm assuming there is a similar way of doing this on a Mac but thus far haven't pinned down anything definite in the usual Mac forums.....lots of "I think this might work for you" type chatter but nothing definitive.

Just to update in case anyone's interested, I'm getting the vinyl into iTunes now! In my particular case, I cobbled together a transfer line between my Music Hall MMF 5 turntable and the iMac consisting of, (1) an FJB-200X phono pre-amp from BBE sound Inc. (available at a variety of guitar/musician shops), (2) the approx. 30' left and right RCA line that came with my old Inport Deluxe package minus the small grey step up box and USB adaptor, spliced with 2 Radio Shack RCA male-to-male couplers and a little electricians tape onto (3) a 7 ' "iCable" (from the local Apple Store and manufactured by Monster) which adapts the left and right RCA connections down into the small stereo plug required by both the audio in and audio out ports on the back of my iMac. Once I had this route between turntable and Mac audio in established, I experimented around with Garage Band enough to figure out that it's more of a multitracking type musician's thingie than what I'm up to messing with for just recording records and tapes and I proceeded to download the free Audacity program. After a bit of going back and forth between the Audacity application itself and tutorial resources online which allowed me to get the audio routes in and out to the onboard iMac speakers to be monitored squared away, I've put a couple of albums from my vinyl collection into iTunes now and, for my purposes (non-critical listening but "very good" quality to play thru my home stereo while I'm doing my graphics work on the iMac) I couldn't be happier!