How far do you need to go? I find the ease of use and speed of dBPoweramp outweighs any theoretical or actual improvement that EAC might offer. I'm more interested in listening to music than agonising over whether the rip is 100% accurate or not. I have a reasonably high-end system - !Ack dac, Bryston SP1.7 and 4B-SST powering PMC IB1 studio monitors - and I have yet to listen to a rip with which I'm not satisfied.
On many occasions the rips have revealed details within the recording that I have never heard before when playing the CD on the CD player. I have not done an A-B comparison between dBPAmp and EAC, but I have A-B'd dBPoweramp rips played using the Squeezebox digital o/p, against the donor CDs played on my reclocked Marantz cdp, also using its digital o/p. For these tests I set two inputs to digital-in on the SP1.7 pre/processor -thus employing the same inbuilt dac for each input, connected the Squeezebox to one input and the Marantz to the other, pressed the 'go' button on both players simultaneously, and then switched between the two inputs to compare the quality of replay. In every case the Squeezebox sounded superior, both to me and to other listeners, both lay and audiophile. I should declare that I had replaced the Squeezebox SMPS wall-wart with a 1.5Amp linear power supply fairly soon after I got it, which improved the sound a great deal. So - for my money dBPoweramp does the job and does it well. EAC may in theory be better, but my wish is to listen to music, not to listen for imperfections. -- afblaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ afblaster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1643 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18732 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
