you shouldnt have any problems getting a good recording from vinyl. i digitised my entire collection years ago and its perfectly playable.
the way i did it
all eq's on mixer at neutral
record it so that the loudest part of the track just slightly clips on the mixer and hits about -1/-2 on the editor record meter.
add the slightest touches of eq in the audio editor afterwards (only very very slight touches) - use the best software eq you can find, has to be totally transparent. flux epure for example
render the file to the highest quality mp3 that you can.
good luck.. tkes bloody ages!!!!
When you say neutral do you mean eq's down to zero then pump it up with eq's on my software?