Quote Originally Posted by StanleyB View Post
Don't be too hasty. For serious listening I still prefer to spin a CD. Music is ripped from a CD at a far higher speed than the disc would normally be played at. I am not convinced that the ripped data is always the same as the slowly played data. The Reed-Solomon error correction employed in a CDP during playback is lacking in documentation as far as its operation is concerned during the CD ripping process. So I am not satisfied that the R-S truth table is adhered to during a rip.
Stanley I thought it worth quickly commenting on this.
The best way to rip a CD is use something like dbpoweramp that basically guarantees you have made a bit perfect rip.
First of all you need to have that error correction switched off for ripping. You don't want algorithms to be guessing at what the right data might be, you want it to be read properly off the CD with 100% certainty.
In addition programs like dbpoweramp compare the rip you have just made with a database of known bit-perfect rips and can validate that you have made a bit perfect rip.
In contrast a CD player will almost certainly never play a CD with bit-perfect precision when in stream mode as it needs to play in real-time.