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In Reply to: Magnetic/hard-drive vs. optical/CD: Who has made the switch? posted by Srajan Ebaen on October 30, 2005 at 08:10:47:
> What level of conventional digital did you own before (Rotel, Audio Aero, Meitner)?Onkyo DVSP-1000 Universal player
> What, exactly, replaced it (hard-drive/CPU, sound card/DAC, interface [S/PDIF, AES/EBU, USB, other])?
Existing computer with Athlon XP 3200+ CPU, 1 GB RAM. Added two 300 GB SATA drives in a RAID 1 configuration to the motherboard's built-in RAID controller. Wireless streaming to a Squeezebox 2 connected to a Benchmark DAC 1 via TOSLink. Squeezebox adds internet radio feature, which eliminates (for me) any need for an FM tuner. Added a Dell 600m laptop in the listening location to control the SlimServer app for music selection.
> Was your move convenience, price or performance based?
Convenience and also fun factor of computer audio
> What's the retail cost of your HD-based digital rig now compared to the best conventional digital you owned before?
Retail cost of computer peripherals is not meaningful. Paid $160 ea. for the 300 GB hard drives, $300 (retail) for the Squeezebox and $975 (retail) for the Benchmark DAC 1. Total price of these adds up to about what I paid for the Onkyo universal player.
> How many CDs did you rip to hard-drive?
About 650
> Did you use something like EAC to do it? Please specify your "data acquisiton" protocol, real time vs. hi-speed, what software interface is used etc.
EAC was used in secure mode, invoking the FLAC encoder automatically from within EAC. Shift-F6 (test and copy selected tracks) was used, which does a test rip and CRC computation, then an actual rip with a second CRC computation. The test and final CRC values are displayed side-by-side after the rip is complete so any discrepancies can be flagged and the rip invalidated in the case of problems. This identified two defective discs. These discs were tried on several different CD-RW drives, none of which were able to produce an error-free rip. New copies of these discs were bought, which fixed the problem. Also, neither of my CD-RW drives were able to rip the 80-minute Workingman's Dead HDCD without errors, so a new CD-RW drive was bought. This fixed the problem with long CDs. The AccurateRip plugin was used to compute the read offset of the drive, and separate read and write offsets were used. See "The Coaster Factory" site for an explanation of read and write offsets. In each directory to which a CD is ripped (one per), a log file is saved for verification, as well as a CUE file. The CUE file is part of a "double backup" strategy in case the original CD gets damaged. This file contains accurate gap timing information to allow burning a CD that's as close as possible to an identical copy of the original from the disc-based files.
> Do you download music? If so, what's the rough percentage between ripping original CDs and uploading streaming music?I don't have a legal source of lossless music, and even if I did, I'm unconvinced that whoever rips them uses the same care that I do when I rip my own.
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