PS Audio Phono + Sony HAP-Z1ES

The sony has no digital input or output. The USB and Ethernet are purely for use of network connection and the USB is for external storage. ALL music must pass through the computer and be stored on the internal or external via USB hard drives. The USB connected hard drive cannot have music already on it, it must be transferred from the computer through the network.

I guess I am trying to understand how one can make digital copies of LPs. 10 years ago I had an Alesis Masterlink and it was a simple matter to run the analog signal into that device and it would store it on the hard drive and I could play it back at whatever sample rate I chose to record at.

I sold it because I was not very serious about archiving my vinyl (and eventually getting my collection down to a manageable number). I would assume there is something like that out there with a terabyte of memory and a better means of organizing the files. This is what I thought the Sony device could do.

Not sure I understand the difference between the Sony HAP-Z1ES and a regular computer with music software.

I thank you for responding despite that I do not quite understand how to proceed.

I would look into an Ayre QA-9 which is an Analog to digital converter. You would plug this into a computer to make the copies. The Sony is basically a audio server which plays DSD and PCM files which are stored directly on the sony.