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Rippin' CD's: What affects sound quality?

What affects the sound quality of CD's ripped to hard drive?

Also, is WAV the highest fidelity method of converting CDs into hard drive files? How does the sound quality of a WAV compare to the original CD?

Thanks in advance!
mshan

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skiierguy
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just make sure when you rip the CDs to WAV files that you only compress them with a lossless compression algorithm such as APE (www.monkeysaudio.com) or SHN. i use APE myself.

to the best of my knowledge, a WAV file is an exact, uncompressed copy of the source on the CD.
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