There is no substantiation or any data used in the article to support the statement that "Theres a huge difference between a CD ripped by a home computer and one ripped through a professional system."
If you: 1. Rip to a lossless format, FLAC, ALAC, APE, WMA-Lossless, etc.; and 2. Use a program which will insure your rip is accurate, e.g. http://www.exactaudiocopy.org/ http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm the rip will be identical to the information on the original CD. This does not require a "professional system", whatever that means. There is a clue as to why the unsubstantiated statement was made. The author is president and co-founder of a company which charges customers to rip their CD's for them. This is from the company's website: -RipDigital's default configuration for converting your CD collection is 192 kbps MP3, while most player software packages claim 128 kbps to be CD quality. The higher bit-rate at which RipDigital encodes guarantees you even better sound quality than you would experience using CD quality on the most popular players. That said, virtually all encoding technologies compress your music. Though indistinguishable to even the most tuned ears, the technical truth is that encoded music is not exactly the same as the original.- I'll pass on the "professional" system ripping my collection to 192 kbps MP3 files and will stick with my FLAC rips using Exact Audio Copy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff52's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=103 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97019
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