HD audio ripping from a Mac

Posted by: John Gorodecky on 03 December 2014

My apologies,  this question is less technical than most. What is the best way to get my CD collection ripped to a NAS drive at the highest quality using an Apple MAC to stream to a Muso? Thanks
Posted on: 04 December 2014 by Steve J

Same for me. iTunes works well with Error Correction enabled and I've only had trouble with a few scratched CDs that I've had to resort to XLD.

Posted on: 04 December 2014 by Rockingdoc

and are we using iTune to rip to WAV or ALAC?

 

I have to say that while I like to see all of the error correcting progress in dbPoweramp, iTunes rips sound the same to me.

Posted on: 04 December 2014 by tonym

I rip to AIFF. I do reckon they sound a tadge better than ALAC.

Posted on: 04 December 2014 by George J
Originally Posted by tonym:

I think George might be talking about the steel needles that came in a little metal box for playing 78s...

 

Anyway, I happily use iTunes for ripping & of the thousands of CDs I've ripped I can't detect any problems. Of course I went down the road of using XLD (which still resides on my 'puter, handy for conversion of FLAC & DSD files) but having tried ripping with both methods I could detect no audible difference. A couple of CDs that my 555 wouldn't play ripped perfectly in both XLD & iTunes. And sounded identical. Good enough for me, I like a simple life.

 

No I was talking of the detachable Ortofon MM cartridge stylus shell unit [OM 40 was the model] that cost £40 a time. Not small money thirty odd years ago.

 

Recommended for 600 hours of playing, maximum. On a Dual TT.

 

Before that I had a Sony DD TT that was a PS LX [cannot remember the number], which equally had a detachable head shell for the stylus. We are talking 1980s!

 

Steel needles should be changed every five[ish] minutes at the end of the side played of 78 records!

 

Tony, you are a wag!

 

ATB from George

Posted on: 04 December 2014 by tonym

 My dad had a tin of needles & he used to change them regularly. The only problem - he put the old ones back in the tin!

Posted on: 04 December 2014 by George J

My first gramophone that I paid for in 1972 with my own £4 was this.

 

A Model 102 [HMV] 

 

Made between 1932 and 1958, only the ESL [57] has been made for longer!

 

 

Mine was less good looking than this as it was already forty years old!

 

ATB from George

Posted on: 04 December 2014 by hungryhalibut

1932? Call that old? This is my second system. Try as I might I can't get the metal discs into my UnitiServe. 

Posted on: 04 December 2014 by Innocent Bystander
Originally Posted by George J:

My first gramophone that I paid for in 1972 with my own £4 was this.

 

A Model 102 [HMV] 

 

Made between 1932 and 1958, only the ESL [57] has been made for longer!

 

 

Mine was less good looking than this as it was already forty years old!

 

ATB from George

That looks exactly like my mother's, on which I used to play her small 78 classical collection when I came home from school in the early 60s. My favourite was Beethoven's Egmont overture.  At that time I disliked the Beatles (I think mainly because everyone else raved about "She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah"). I professed to dislike them until Get Back came out, by which time my older brother had a record player, when I bought that single as my first own record, playing on his record player whenever I could. Also at that time I'd secrete myself in my parents' "front room" and listen to the likes of Luxembourg on their (valve) radio. With an interest in electronics I avidly read up about hifi and, prompted by said brother's dislike of me using his record player and a yearning for better sound like that heard in local music shops, soon making my own first hifi system - not exactly high end audiophile but sounded great to me, and the start of my path to the present day with a Naim streamer source.