Hi Paul. I'm using a JVC stack system vintage 1992, but it's a quality piece of kit. The stack has turntable, amp, tuner, casette deck and CD player. For both turntable and casette I've used a 1/4 stereo jack in to the phones out socket, and mini stereo jack into mic in on the laptop (which is a stereo socket). This config has worked really well for handling vinyl LPs, but the noise on casette means that the transferred data is ruined. Last night I managed to get a viable transfer after using rumble and hiss filters, but the resultant remainder sounded like a track that was going through a wah wah. I then tried a walkman type casette player (Panasonic, so again, quality kit), which a little less noisy. Any comment on this? If not, I'll make a recording and send it. Thanks - love the cat. Best - Nigel