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Dropout when ripping CDs to wav or applelossless

I have been experiencing dropouts on CDs which are very annoying and not noted on my CD player, MF Nuvista. I have ripped the CDs with iTunes to applelossless with error correction and with XLD as .wav files. In the XLD log, I note the track has jitter error (maybe fixed). How can I correct this problem. Is there a setting error I am missing or a program that I can run over tracks with this problem.

FYI: I am using a 2011 mac mini, 8gb memory, 256 ssd harddrive and the music files are stored on mirrored 1 TB lacie hard drives connected by firewire. The output is upsampled in pure music (HOG mode) and sent out a 2.0 USB to W4S Dac-2 via their custom USB interconnect between the mac and the dac.

Thank you for your thoughts.
cardiackid

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slikric3000
638 posts
 
Use a computer to rip, a minimac is the last thing I would use.
slikric3000
638 posts
 
It probably is a great little media server and it does not take much power to serve up the tunes, but you said you are having problems with ripping. The smaller the pc the more performance suffers. You may be getting drop out because this little thing is not up to the task. Have you set the max rip speed a little lower. I bet that cd rom doesn't even do 52x, if so I would be suprised. Something that small would be 24x like a laptop rom is. Have you tried ripping a few in a good, not prehistoric, computer ??
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