Lard;150908 Wrote: > Hi, > > After a bit of browsing around the forum there doesn't seem to be a > discussion about using a digital out on a Hifi CD player as a ripping > source. I'm wondering why, so if one exists please post the link. > > My CD player (Mark Levinson 390S) has a digital out and the PC I use as > a Slimserver has a Terratec EWX24/96 bit clean sound card with digital > in. The CD outputs the audio data after jitter/error correction and > when playing CDs it does a superb job. The logical conclusion is > putting these two together should give the best possible ripping > accuracy, the question is how to do it? And, of course, is it better > using the transport of a $10,000 CD player that the software doesn't > control or to use a $50 CDROM drive that software can control? > > So far my thoughts are to record the digital input stream to an ISO > image which is mounted as a CD and then 'ripped' again to get track > info. I'm not sure which tool to use but cdparanoia is a candidate, > perhaps there's something which will do it all in one hit but most > ripping tools expect to work on a CD drive they can control. > Suggestions, especially for Linux tools, would be useful. My target > format is FLAC, the server is running SUSE Linux 10.0 and the SB3 > outputs digital audio to the CD player's optical digital input (yes, it > has one of those). > > My few experiments this far have proved that ripping CDs with the CDROM > drive in my PC and not taking any care results in a clearly audible > reduction in quality, even ripping to WAV. But how to get the best > possible results?
No, sorry, there is nothing to gain at all from using a fancy transport for ripping. The reason the transport sounds good feeding into a DAC has nothing (or almost nothing) to do with the qualities needed to rip audio. Just get a good modern DVD-drive for your computer and rip at a reasonable speed using software such as EAC. I use EAC, but to be honest I doubt I would ever hear the difference compared to ripping with a standard Windows application -I just happen to like weird and funky solutions.. (Which, incidentally, also means I have no album art..) I have set up EAC to create FLAC and AAC from a single rip -but it was a dog to get working. -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29202 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
