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Ripping CD's to SSD?

OK, so be patient here with me, I am an "old" 68 year old audiophile from the 1980’s dealing with new technology. I was away from the Audio Scene for 20 years until I came back in 2021. SO I’ve updated most of my equipment. One of those updates is an Aurender N200, which I got this April. I added a Samsung SSD drive to it and was thinking I may like to rip a few CD’s to it for the sake of comparison vs streaming Qobuz.

 

Please understand when ya all start mentioning file types and all that I am in the weeds. I am behind the tiems.

 

What I can tell you is i have a 10 year old Macbook Pro running OS 10.14.6 Mojave. I have the external Apple CD drive. How do i go about placing the CD into the drive, attaching a USB cable to the Aurender and getting the file loaded onto the Aurender Samsung drive? Do I need any special software? Dom i just stick the CD into the drive and the Aurender is found on my laptop and i select it as the location for the file. Like I said this is all so new to me, I want to learn. I’d like to see how i like this compared to listening through my CEC Tl1x. If the explanation gets technical you will lose me, go slow and walk me through it if you are willing. And thank you!

 

You can see my system in my profile. New speakers are on order to arrive soon!

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ghdprentice
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OP,

 

I will be interested in hearing your findings. I own two Aurrender streamers, N100, and W20SE. In both cases I cannot hear a difference between a stored file and the streamed (same master / file). Often streaming sounds better because Qobuz has much of what I listen to in higher resolution files. 

ghdprentice
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OP,

 

Sounds like you are well set up to perform your comparisons. I have done a lot of that over my time as an audiophile.it is the only way to be sure that the findings conform to your own hearing and values. Enjoy. It is also good to have a few CDs on your streamer in case there is a problem with your network and great way to evaluate futzing with your network.

ghdprentice
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@lalitk

+1

 

Yes and backup of the Aurrender is controlled from the conductor app including playlists and music files..

 

If I remember correctly when I got my Aurender it discovered my music files on my network and asked if it should copy them to my Aurrender internal storage. I said, yes and it did.

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