Digitize LPs with zero loss?

Excellent; this is just the kind of feedback I was
looking for. Could you rank those better converters?
(What should I look for first, maybe a model number?)
(I don't mind having a terabyte of disk space.)

Also, I am unsatisfied with the sound of CDs and was
hoping to keep the richness of vinyl in the transition.
When you say you would have been better off buying the
CDs are you saying that the digitized LPs sounded like
CDs? Can you distinguish the LP from your best digitized
version? If so, that's not what I'm hoping for. (Maybe
the best converters still don't capture the whole signal?)

Thanks,
Brad

"Why do you want to digitize and how will you play back the audio files?"

I'd like to give my favorite LPs a rest and tap into the convenience of digital format music.

I'm a user interface designer specializing in informaiton visualization (see http://didi.com/brad if you like) and it is clear to me that existing audio-shuffling software is in its infancy. I'd like to put together something that has the feel of what I did for MoMA, the sense of TextArc, smarter associative logic than Amazon.com's recommender. The front end of it will take advantage of my Toshiba M200 TabletPC and 50" Pioneer plasma touchscreen; think flick a song or style from the table up to the screen. Student of mine did a decent first step (http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~paley/spring03/assignments/HWFINAL/bgb10) but there's still a mile to go...

Okay; excellent guys; thanks!
And I will surely post ant interface playing I do--thanks
for the kind words.

Now I have this list to look out for:

o Metric Halo ULN-2 or 2882
o Alesis Masterlink 9600

(But the above sample at only 96 kHz--Am I wrong to be
considering this?) And, at 192 kHz:

o Benchmark DAC1 (now) and ADC1 (when it's available)
(They "All sample rates playback with a 52-kHz analog
bandwidth" is that good? Does anything play back with
a full 192 kHz if it's sampled that high?)
o Apogee Rosetta 200 (This one doesn't specify a playback
analog bandwidth--might that imply 192 kHz?)
o Mytek Stereo192ADC and Stereo96DAC (which plays back
192 kHz streams, but the unit's name seems to imply
that it's downsampled--but perhaps I'm just not reading
something on http://www.mytekdigital.com/stereo96.htm
that specifies this, due to my newness at this game...)

Have I left anything out?

Also Id' be especially grateful if anyone has tested any
two or more of these things and can report what they heard.

Or is there some clearinghouse site that keeps comparing
these things, like people do PC video game boards?