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Ripping CDs to lossless in Itunes.. HiFi approved?

Hi,

The name says it all.

I want to rip my CDs once, and do it right. I started with eac, but it's complicated to get it to work right with Apple Lossless and get the tags right.

So... I switched over to Itunes directly, ripping CDs to Apple Lossless.

Without getting too "audiophile abstract," is there anything wrong with these files?
goatwuss

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drubin
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My experience has been different from Ml8764ag's. I prefer the sound of the Toslink out of the Mac Mini rather than USB (use a good Toslink cable). If you are using one of the leading edge USB DACs (Wavelength, Empirical, UltraFi), none of which I have tried, it may be a different story.
drubin
3,285 posts
 
You may have reached the right conclusion (or not) but for the wrong reasons. There are a lot of variables in play in your test, not just the file format of your rip.
drubin
3,285 posts
 
Thorough and thoughtful, Blackstonejd. Thanks for those posts. Hopefully we will someday know, definitively, answers to the questions you pose.

Opening another cans of worms, an industry insider recently talked about the playback software having its own sound. iTunes is said to have a "false transparency," whatever that means. Clearly, bit-perfect is only half the battle.
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