Berkeley DAC is now preamp- advice to play vinyl and not waste BAT?

[shaq]

My Berkeley DAC is clearly superior as a direct player for digital when I bypass my BAT 51SE preamp and Tom Evans phono preamp.

 

This leaves me with two expensive pieces of equipment totally unused, except when I play the occasional record.

 

Any suggestions that will still give me LP capability, but not have so much tied up in phono capability?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

[Mr.C]

The easiest thing to do would to rent an AD converter (high quality of course) and digitize your LPs. Unlike the Benchmark DAC1pre, I don't think the Alpha dac has analogue inputs.