Actuary;199182 Wrote: > Hello. > first time, long time. > > consider me 2 months past ignorant of even knowing stuff like sb > existed. I'm sortive old and sortive oblivious. Furthermore, I had > been using my car stereo as the source of hi-fi enjoyment. > > When I bought a laptop, we asked the fella "how can we hook this up to > our home stereo" He suggested using a y-adapter and headphone out ->>> > Receiver. "Uh, isn't that going to sound pretty bad, with the amplified > signal from the Headphone jack?" > "Nah, it'll sound great." Guy at radio shack said the same. Well, > there was lots of hum. Was it groud loop? I don't know. But I ran on > battery only to test, and still there. > > So anyway, you'd be surprised how few normal people even realize this > sb and other products like it exist. I was clued in by an associate, > after asking lots of folks if there was an alternative and trying to > search the interweb, apparently with poor key word choices. > > Ok, back to post. > So, not knowing better 3 months ago, I ripped my cds (wma lossless) > using the Compaq Laptop cd drive. > > Here's my question: > Pretend I have good "music-ears", and tell me what I should listen for, > in order to determine a degraded version, due to using a sub-optimal > drive for ripping. (if anything) > > My Home equipment is very very average. Having spent 10k on the car > stereo 7 yrs ago, I felt, at least for now, that a modest home theatre > would be fine. > Maybe with cheap speakers, I won't tell a difference from using a > laptop to burn? > > I only burn certain tracks > If it's worth it, I'd reburn (and probably use FLAC, although the > current wma is cool, even w/o full remote fuctionality) > > > thank you for reading this and for your help. > > > *********** > > ooops, I may have posted in the wrong forum. > I see there is a rip forum. > Maybe some Mod will move this for me? > Until then, one of you Audiophiles can addrees the nuances!
Laptop drives are just fine for ripping.. what matters is using a secure ripper like cdparanoia (linux), EAC (windows) -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34963 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
