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Success! The issue was, as you suggested, bad wiring of the cartridge - I straightened it out such that the hot and ground leads for each channel are no longer mixed.
Your help on this is greatly appreciated. You are a terrific resource. Many thanks!!!

The cord is identical to your pix. I am connected to the blue jack and have confirmed that its stereo by using another input - right and left channels are independent and work normally.
I will focus on the cartridge when I return this week.

Yes the computer is a desktop - nice machine.
The connection from the preamp are RCA pin plugs for each channel into a std 3.5mm male going to the stereo line-in jack on the computer.

I am traveling over the Christmas holidays but will look at the cartridge connections when i return next week.

I am using a Thorens TD 125 Turntable with a Sure M91ED stereo cartridge. This goes into a Technolink TC-750 preamp. The line output of this goes to the onboard VIA HD (Win10) audio chip line input on the computer. The computer is an AMD Athlon II X2 250 CPU running the latest Win 10. The VIA line i...

Yes indeed - the volume level is GREATLY reduced. This does not happen with the files I have ripped from CDs.

Can this be remedied?

I am running Audacity v2.2.0 on the latest version of Windows 10. I have recorded my LP collection with the procedures outlined in the manual including normalization. The content is classical music. I have exported the results as variously as MP3, WMA and FLAC all with the same results. If I play th...