On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 15:27 -0800, Horizons wrote: > I just discovered the SB3 and am itching to buy one. I am a whacko > audiophile that will be using an external DAC.
I'd suggest first getting an SB3 and listening. You might not need the external DAC, and if you decide you do, you can always add it. > what is the absolute BEST audio quality ripping process? I don't care > how large the files are, it's quality that counts most for me. For > everything I have read, it's uncompressed WAV files ripped via ITunes. There are lots of reasons to use FLAC over wav files. Its free, native supported in the SqueezeBox, free in all senses, EAC is the accepted solution for Windows boxes. Technically, you care about 'extracting' the PCM data from the CD and then optionally compressing it with Flac. You could use other lossless compression systems, MLP, LosslessWMA or Apple Lossless, but lossless is lossless as far as quality. > > > I am on a PC/Win XP platform. Thanks. > -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
