Converting cd's to high resolution audio


All my music is on cd's and my reading tells me that the cd itself has a limited shelf life and will degrade over time.
Any recommendations about converting my cd's to FLAC or some type of high quality music files. Not looking for
compressed files.
I see products such as the Blue Sound Music Vault and a Sony High Resolution Music Player.
Does anybody have any thoughts about how to accomplish this goal?

Thank you. 
kjl1065

Showing 6 responses by uberwaltz

Another worthy alternative is the NAD M50.2. This has had good reviews too and has one advantage in that you can actually use it just to play cds if you wish.
The vault can only rip cds to playback from its hard drive. 

That being said its mrsp is $4000 although I did see a factory refurbished unit for $2500 on eBay.

Still a lot more cash than the Vault.
The only thing I would have liked the ability to do was to create a partition on the Vault hard drive.
So I could have my daughter's cds on a separate section entirely however it does not seem possible.

I do not remember when I last played a CD in,my rig...lol.
I either play vinyl, ripped CD from the Vault or streamed Tidal via the Vault.
So as you see the Vault is vital in my system
OP
I read the same review where it seemed the reviewer was drawing his conclusions from the noise while ripping.
Well all I can say is approx 2500 cds later and 17 months and no issues.
I believe ripping cds direct with the vault is the only way to add to its hard drive but not 100% sure.
The vault is THE mainstay source in my stereo rig. It has RCA analog outputs and digital outputs so take your pick. I find the dig out on coax to be best but I am feeding it into a superior DAC. The RCA analog outputs will work just fine.
Control it with the Bluos app from your droid or iPhone or iPad. It really is easy
@dweller 
That is EXACTLY what you do with the Vault.
I has built in 2tb hard drive, then you just do a back up to another external hard drive via usb connection. And another if you need to be super anal about it.....lol.
I have 2 backups and feel pretty good about the data being safe.
Certainly the Bluesound Vault 2 will do exactly what you are asking for...and then some!
You can rip to flac or wav files or even mp3 if you wanted to...lol.
However it is much more than just a cd storage device.
You can access all manner of internet radio stations and paid streaming services like Tidal, Spotify, Deezer etc.
All for about 1000 to 1300 depending where you shop.

However I am not so sure I would worry too much about your cds degrading too much.
But the Vault does put them all at your fingertips and in better sq format imho.
Take you about 6 minutes per cd to copy to its built in hard drive and the bonus is no computer needed to control or organise it. Just really needs a hard wired ethernet connection from your router.
You control the Vault from the Bluos app on either droid or iPhone/ipad.
I have been happily living with this solution for near 17 months now and still see nothing that makes me want to upgrade and I have looked.
Good luck with your choices.