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Transport rips to hard drive?

ok, i gather that most people going PC Audio are ripping CDs from their desktop/laptop to their hard drive. seems the trouble there could be a flimsy transport in the desk/laptop that causes a less than optimal rip.

better way is if you could read the CD with a dedicated, audiophool approved transport and then send its output directly to the hard drive, or to the PC as a digital stream for it to input and it encode to the hard drive.

is it possible for either:
A) an external HD to accept a transport's digital stream directly (i doubt it)
B) a PC to accept a digital input stream for it to use as data to be burned to a hard drive?

programs / hardware / IO board recommendations are welcome!
thx
rhyno

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kijanki
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If computer can read data CDs it should be able to read music CDs. There are programs that read music CD as data. They force transport to read given sector many times if necessary, to obtain correct checksum.

CDP uses Cross Interleaved Reed Solomon error correction code that interpolates missing data. CDPs operate in real time and reads given sector only once.
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