Are all red book cd transports created equal?

@steve59,

I understand you are not quite ready to give up on CD’s yet. I would use Pioneer player in the interim and invest in a high quality streamer with internal hard drive so you can enjoy bit perfect rips of your CD’s.

There are plenty of software programs (Express Rip, Audiograbber) and standalone high quality ripper like Innuos Zen Mini MK3 or Vault 2i that will make exact copies of your original CD’s.

My 800 plus CD’s rips stored on my Aurender N10 sounds just as good as my original CD’s.

“This will only be close to bit perfect if he uses a good CD transport, other wise there’ll be errors and jitter transferred to the HD.
Then there’s write and read back errors from the HD, probably powered by an smp, so noise to add to that also.
I’ve yet to hear a streamer/hd sound as good as a proper CD transport playing the same CD“

@georgehifi

I see no point in engaging folks who speaks from ignorance. You have been peddling your BS 80’s views over and over. Open your mind my friend and go listen to a decent streaming setup at your friend’s place or a dealer.

“Don’t have to, they bring there streaming stuff here and put it in my system, and then are shocked when the same is played on my CD transport.“

Thanks for the laughs...enjoy your boombox 😆

Honestly, If it sounds better to your ears, you don’t need anyone’s validation.

Enjoy the much improved and modern world of high quality digital streaming and bit perfect cd rips.