opaqueice;175374 Wrote: > I use EAC, and it usually rips the entire CD without needing to > re-read, and the accuracy of the rip is confirmed by accuraterip. I think you mean without needing to correct errors.
If you use secure mode it re-reads everything, which is why it's so slow when set up properly. Read>Flush drive Cache>Re-read, for each sector at least once, until they match. If a re-read doesn't check out then you get a row of error correction squares. If that row isn't successfull it continues for as many rows as you have specified before moving to the next sector. It's pretty easy to inadvertantly fool the mechanism though, by allowing the drive to cache audio or correct the c2 errors. Those are things you want control of if you're after bit-perfect rips, especially if your drive is of unknown quality. The plextor system is great because the hardware and software already know what to expect from the other. iTunes doesn't have the same advantage, thus the heavy-handed approach of EAC (take all the intelligence away from the drive) is required. Why would one geek out on bit perfection? Look at the volume control of Sb3, for example. 99/100 is an inaudible difference, yet enough to ruin bit perfection and hope of HDCD/DTS passthrough. I'm not saying that iTunes rips aren't bit perfect, I haven't researched it, but there is no method of alerting the user so one wouldn't ever really know. -- Skunk ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Skunk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2685 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32212 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
