Benchmark also makes the best vinyl transfer to digital, on your hard-drive.
Presently I'm working on my third time down-loading my vinyl to hard-drive. After purchasing a more expensive cartridge and NOS tubes for the phono-pre, in order to enjoy the improvements on playback from the computer, this has to be done.
It wasn't easy to get identical results from just spinning a record and computer playback, but many of us have it.
The advantages are many; I can program my play-list and listen all night long in the bedroom rig without getting out of bed.
My old records are clean and like new because I seldom handle them.
I think you enjoy records more when you program the playlist for mood, and select LP's that generate that mood.
Enjoy the music.