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RE: How to improve ripping

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In Reply to: RE: How to improve ripping posted by geoffkait on May 04, 2022 at 12:51:00

If all of these things need to be done to make CD sound better, maybe CD isn't quite up to the task.

"Perfect Sound Forever" was never perfect. The disks were prone to not be perfect, the players were not perfect. I had an original Magnavox FD1000 and it sounded awful. I still have my early CDs and they still sounded awful on my more modern player. The CD was a technological marvel that was obsolete within a few years, except that the entire industry invested in it and had to stick with it.

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RE: How to improve ripping - Todd Krieger 18:22:38 05/06/22 (0)
I know a lot of audiophiles who believe CD playback (and digital playback in general) is hopelessly inadequate in regard to providing playback fidelity worthy of high-end audio......

I once believed that way..... I was about to give up on CDs personally..... Until I experienced a Wadia 7/9 CD playback rig, roughly 30 years ago......

I have been chasing the "Wadia 7/9 sound" for CD playback since that time.... And I think I was fortunate to get close enough to where I could enjoy CDs almost as much as I enjoy vinyl..... (I do think streaming would be a setback to this "chase"...... But I have a similar sentiment toward high-resolution digital audio playback.)

But the endeavor was excruciatingly difficult..... (And also very expensive..... I once did a 14 DAC shootout back in the late 1990s.) It's also a reason I could explain why I believe a lot of different forms of CD and digital audio playback don't sound right..... (I think the sonic artifacts in lossless/FLAC file playback, for example, are quite bizarre.) I've often been accused of having "golden ears," but I guess the quest for good sound can be overly obsessive for some people......
RE: How to improve ripping - geoffkait 17:25:52 05/04/22 (0)
Eggs ackley! All CD players have these issues. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, nobody could put Humpty Dumpty together again. That's kind of my point.

People believe what they choose to believe. - Old audiophile axiom

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