How many CD’s you’re planning to rip for comparison? PM me and I’m happy to help you out!
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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Welcome to digital world. To combat Wi-Fi, you need USB C to Ethernet dongle. This will speed up large file transfer. My laptop doesn’t have Ethernet port either, I use this dongle during my DSD downloads. Your ripped version may sound better possibly because of different master used on CD vs one being streamed and vice versa. I buy lot of Japanese XRCD’s and found them to be superior than most other versions including streaming. |
The Samsung drive referred here is an internal drive housed inside Aurender. So it does not have USB port. I would rip CD’s in WAV format. All other formats use some form of compression during ripping process. Once you have ripped files in your MAC hard drive, transfer them to Aurender folder, Music1. As long as your Aurender is on the same network, you can directly transfer files onto Music1 folder. That’s how I manage my downloads, they go straight to my Aurender Music1 folder from NativeDSD downloader. |
+1, @blisshifi One of the reason why I chose to invest in Aurender ACS100. Prior to acquiring ACS100, I used different methods to rip my CD’s and none of them were quite satisfactory in terms of ease, curation, playback and managing a large library of rips and downloads as ACS100. Since I continue to collect CD’s, ACS100 became essential to my system. Prior to ACS100, I owned Vault 2, while it ripped CD’s; the quality of metadata and playback was nowhere near the level of ACS100. The ACS100 may be considered a luxury component for ripping and for those savvy with laptops and ripping but it does so much more, all from its superb ACS Manager iOS app. It is a must own component for those who wants no intervention with laptop, wants to rip on the fly and appreciates SOTA file management system and already own another Aurender.
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