I record straight from my A&H Xone 42 soundcard into Audacity. It has decent enough preamps. To my ears the rips sound the same as listening to them through my hifi speakers. I make sure to record around -3db, if I need more volume I’ll turn the gain up on the software post recording. It’s almost never the case. My carts are silver pro ortofon concordes, also nothing special, and I do very very very little post processing. I just can’t be bothered to edit every single track on ableton after ripping, although I definitely admire those who do. Ripping for me is just a way to get the track to digital, usually done the night before or thereabouts.
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