Methods for transfer of albums to CD


A friend of mine has a very large collection of mint albums, including a beatles import box set, and a franklin mint jazz anthology which includes some fantastic music. I own a computer with a HP cd burner, Roxio Easy CD creator 5 software, but no decent sound card. I was wondering if any of you have had any success at creating good sounding CD's from vinyl, and what equipment I might need. I am sure I need a sound card for the computer with an analog and/or digital input, and one of the add on phono pre-amps, which I would likely use later to add analog to my system. Any suggestions and or experiences, both good and bad, will be appreciated. My current system:

Cary 808 amp, SLP 2002 pre-amp, Theta pro gen and Data, B&W 802 Matrix II, and a Windows 95 based PC with CD burner.

Mike
mike7142
I've gone a completely different direction with my Philips CDR 880 which of course is stand alone. Results are very good and you simply integrate it into your system without having you turntable hanging around the computer.
i don't like using a stand alone because it doesn't give you the freedom that the computer does. plus, i just use a long cable run to get to the computer.
I wonder if anyone knows of a PCMCIA high grade audio card, or even an outboard audio card that can be used with a laptop. I use a laptop exclusively--and it's very convenient to be able to take it to the audio room and plug in directly to the system for either measurements or recordings--however, the audio card quality is what one would expect from a laptop--not so great. Any ideas?
I am thinking about doing the same but instead of burning CD I would like to sample LPs to 24/96 PCM tracks and burn them on DVD. That way if I play them back through a high quality DAC I can preserve more of the hi-res of LPs.

I am also looking for a reasonable priced outboard 24/96 A-to-D converter with either RS-232 or USB output. Does anyone konw of any?