LP to CD Recording probl

Hi all,
I am trying to record my LP's to CD and have having some recording problems. I have an old AKAI AP-82 turntable connected to an AKAI AM-U03 amplifier. This in turn is connected via the tape rec output to my Audigy Platnum Pro Line-in 3 jacks (I have also tested this with the lin-out on the amp with the same results).
Anyway, I can listen to LP's and the sound quality is great. However, if I record an LP the sound recording (WAV or MP3) sounds a little hollow or muffled, certainly not the same quality as the sound I am hearing when I listed to the LP.
I am using the Creative MediaSource Player to do the recordings.
Anysuggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Mark

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hope I am in the right forum. This one looks pretty close.
I have the Audigy 2ZS Platnum Pro in a brand new Compaq Prisario w/AMD (64) CPU running Windows XP w/52 megs of RAM. I bought this card new a couple of years ago and got frustrated trying to learn to multitrack with it. I recently installed the card in the above mentioned computer and went back to trying to learn to use this device.
When setting the driver in Cubasis VST 4.0 I used the driver that came with my Audigy card like the instructions say to do but it caused my "sample rate" to be set to 9600khz. The instructions say to run at 44.khz to avoid problems but that is not an option with the Audigy driver. I tried several different recordings before I tried a full song. Things were going fairly well till I used the Audigy Pro driver, I started recording and my computer went wako on me then reset to the command prompt and began rebooting but it was like it was in some strange loop or something. It was hard to get it turned off and then reboot the computer. This happened a couple of times.
I quit trying to use the Audigy driver and and tried all the other drivers listed in the audio setup program. I actually got a nice recording with my midi piano and a vocal track somewhere in all that crap.
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