I have been ripping all of my CD's on an old PC it is a DVD drive but
afterburnt
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with EAC it usually reports back 100 to 99% rips. Should I be using something more up to date to get the best quality rips?
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I would go back and start ripping everything again if "bit perfect" matters that much.
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Are you ripping in a Lossless format ?HT SYSTEM-
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Audio ripping hasn't improved at all since the early 2000s. Pretty much any dvd drive will rip audio perfect if you have the correct settings. EAC has some settings that aren't set by default. It will slow it down big time, but it will guarantee perfect rips (as long as the disc isn't flawed).
If you want, this website has a guide on making truly perfect rips with EAC.
http://xunside.info/eac/For rig details, see my profile. Nothing here anymore... -
FLAC Tony
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Have any error correction controls on ? It will take longer to rip them with them on, but it will give you a better recording.HT SYSTEM-
Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
Cables-
Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
Kitchen
Sonos zp90
Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
lsi 9's -
Bit perfect does matter. I use DB Poweramp. It's not free, but it's inexpensive.
H9"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul! -
For some reason I ripped a bunch of CDs this week, even though they are on my Murfie account...
Anyway, I use Windows Media player and under settings I set it to .WAV. They have FLAC and other stuff in there but I feel CDs should only be ripped at .WAV.B&W CM9Classé Sigma -
Why only WAV?
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afterburnt wrote: »Why only WAV?
Because some claim WAV produces the best recording due mostly to it's uncompressed file. Where as other formats compress first, then uncompress, which saves space too over WAV. Personally I've been hard pressed to tell the difference much at all.HT SYSTEM-
Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
Cables-
Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
Kitchen
Sonos zp90
Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
lsi 9's -
I wonder how large (file size) is an album in 192/24 WAV?afterburnt wrote: »They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.
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I RIP CDs at their native settings.
16bit/44.1kHz and Wav.
I believe this is what a CD produces, so it make sense to copy them at that.B&W CM9Classé Sigma -
It does matter what level of gear you do your listening on as well. So okay, rip away 16 bit/44.1 Hz all you like. I bump mine all up to 48000Hz and am loving the results. Have I A-B'd it with several cd's?? You bet I have. Carry on, and space on my drives is not an issue. All about the end result."if it's not fun, it's not worth it & remember folks, "It's All About The Music"!!
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