michel;326198 Wrote: > To my ears rips at 4x with a Plextor Premium (and to a certain extent > Premium2) sound better than anything else. > Be aware that rips with EAC are a lot inferior than those with Easy > CD-DA (Easy CDDA set to C2 recognition ONLY). > > I did lots os ABx testing. With a Transponder you will hear the > differences most certainly.
Transponder? EAC rips can be checked for accuracy. On undamaged CDs, using very cheap computer CD drives, I almost always get 100% bit perfect rips. I can verify this by comparing the files to an online database, or I could make two copies and use a bit-compare utility. Once the bit-perfect file is on the computer's hard drive there cannot be any memory of the CD drive that ripped it - the only thing that matters is the sequence of bits. So if you really heard differences, you either made bad rips with EAC (which means you didn't use accurip to verify them) or you are fooling yourself. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50690 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
