If I were in your position, I would get an excellent analogue pre-amp Musical Fidelity, BAT, Rogue, Sim Audio, Bel Canto (some of these have built in phone stages or at least optional ones) and use an outboard AtoD converter. For example the MSB Professional Analog to Digital Converter is around $700 and is and excellent piece especially if you add the P9000 power supply (ca $350). This unit outputs optical RCA and XLR digital simultaneously and should sovle your output problem (if you CD-R unit will accept optical or XLR inputs). This would leave you enough to buy a new Musical Fidelity A3cr preamp (for example) at $1500 a good used tuner say $500 and $450 for cabling.
