Congratulations and welcome!
If you haven't seen it already you might want to check out this thread:
https://www.decware.com/cgi-bin/yabb22/YaBB.pl?num=1615347859It has become a bit of tradition for posters both old(er) and new(er).
Re: ZBOX. I don't think you want to put it between your turntable and amp. The turntable ought to go straight into a phono input, unless you need something like a step-up transformer, which you don't.