This is a tough call.
The first thing I would not do is abandon digital altogether. You have hundreds of CDs, no sense not being able to play those.
Your real problem is that you do not have a linestage or phono preamp now. These can be a bit pricy depending on the quality. If you had a linestage and phono preamp, the following advice would be different.
Frankly, here is what I would do:
Keep what you have and save your money for a nice preamp that has a phono stage in it. You might want to consider a used Krell preamp with phono built in. They are a good value, and will be good with the Plinius amp.
The next item on the list you need to get is some better IC's to connect your Preamp to your amp.
The next item you need to save for is a Turntable/Tonearm/Cartridge combination. Lots of good ones out there. Just set a budget and work within that budget.
My 2C.
KF
The first thing I would not do is abandon digital altogether. You have hundreds of CDs, no sense not being able to play those.
Your real problem is that you do not have a linestage or phono preamp now. These can be a bit pricy depending on the quality. If you had a linestage and phono preamp, the following advice would be different.
Frankly, here is what I would do:
Keep what you have and save your money for a nice preamp that has a phono stage in it. You might want to consider a used Krell preamp with phono built in. They are a good value, and will be good with the Plinius amp.
The next item on the list you need to get is some better IC's to connect your Preamp to your amp.
The next item you need to save for is a Turntable/Tonearm/Cartridge combination. Lots of good ones out there. Just set a budget and work within that budget.
My 2C.
KF