P Floding;150910 Wrote: > 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. Agreed - ripping by recording the SPDIF output of a CD player is just making things difficult for yourself (realtime recording only, finding the track starting points). But I do have one additional point to make...
If any of your CDs have some uncorrectable errors (eg. due to damage or poor manufacture), then the way that those uncorrectable errors are dealt with will vary from device to device. If the CDROM drive + software solution you have doesn't cope well, then in these rare cases it might be preferable to record the CD player's SPDIF output - the error concealment algorithm used by the CD player might be better than the CDROM drive and/or software ripper. That said, I have found that the particular drive + software I use (Plextor PX712A and Plextools) actually has *better* error concealment than the rather expensive CD player I used to own (Micro Seiki CD-M100 - not in the Levinson league, of course, but a decent player in its own right). Therefore my advice would be to use ripping software that tells you if there's been an error (eg. EAC, Plextools). Then, if errors are reported, try playing the affected part of the CD on your CD player and compare it to the ripped file. If the CD player gives better error concealment, consider recording the SPDIF output for that particular track. (And finally, it's actually fairly rare to find any uncorrectable errors on CDs, unless they've been abused. When I ripped my 1100+ CDs for use in Slimserver, less than a dozen had any uncorrectable errors). -- cliveb Performers -> dozens of mixers and effects -> clipped/hypercompressed mastering -> you think a few extra ps of jitter matters? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29202 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
