Ripping CD's to hard drive


What is the highest quality way to rip a collection of CD's to a hard drive?  Does it require a high-end transport and DAC of some sort?  How have others gone about this when loading their Lumin, Aurender, etc components? 

cjlundberg

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@kota1 Thank you for the Sony suggestion. I just started re-ripping my CD’s to new 1TB Samsung SS drive ($64 on Amazon) into my my Bluesound Node 2i. The Sony rips FLAC @950kbps constant rate and halves the file size.

I stupidly downloaded and and then paid $8 for the cover art database for EAC (Exact Audio Copy). While I agree, it’s a very powerful yet complicated program to run IMHO.

Then I saw your Sony post the same day. And it’s all FREE with cover art database included !!

 

I had no clue and I’m a Sony Fanboy.

Thanks, man !

Joe