Is this not what a music server does. Rips to bit perfect then to a SSD like the Innuos Server.
charles
That's the entire point of this thread that I started:
"99% of the copied CDs sound worse than the original when played on a quality Hi-Fi system. Is it the fault of digital extraction? How to know? Knowing whether the file has been extracted to the nearest bit 100% identical to that of the original audio CD is impossible, failing to be able to compare with the file of the master tape. Error analysis tools are simple indicators. Counting errors C2 is only an index which measures imperfections, approximations, but which does not predict musicality."
"The particular music lover lacks a tool of comparison, of reference. Only those who navigate the music industry can listen to master files to compare with their commercial CDs. Wanting to evaluate what we have extracted with what others have extracted from the same CD is in no way a guarantee of accuracy (see service accurate ripp). Getting the same number will simply mean that others have done the same and got the same. Alas the law of the greatest number is not the guarantee of a perfect extraction especially if one is looking for something as difficult to measure as the notion of musicality."
The field of ripping, digital audio extraction (DAE in English) has always been neglected, because we mistakenly believed to have identified all the parameters. This blissful self-satisfaction was so firmly anchored in people's minds that the DAE remained frozen, untouched by any innovation that took into account what really mattered, namely musicality, far beyond the illusory "Bit perfect" or other "Accurate rip ".
He's saying that there's unmeasureable (by any test equipment/software analysis, but the ear can hear the improvements) analog components of the ripped WAV file that are part of every "bit perfect" rip. Any website that specializes in computer DAE (i.e. hydrogenaudio) will relegate such talk completely to the loony bin, but this guy set out to take his drive apart and divorce it from its factory power supply, created his own batter power supply, (IMO I think you could get great results with a 'good' supply plugged into a Digibuss, but his could be better, who knows) and constructed an elaborate vibrational dissipation system, created a faraday shield around the drive electronics within his custom chassis, as well as somehow utilizing magnets as he described. I would hazard a guess and say that with these implementations, the ripped WAV file would be less damaged because he "created a blacker background (environment)" so-to-speak in which the digital data was extracted and laid down in its new form as magnetic storage.
The differences in SQ back in the day with rips from CDs were largely influenced by the software being used. Just making a copy from another disc produced tons of errors and they were quite obvious.
A whole new world opened up for me whan I got a Cary 306 CD player to replace my Rotel 990. The level of detail was amazing and I could easily hear all of the SQ rip differences that the 990 had obscured.
I started doing mods to my ripping system and I built a Mini-ITX computer with a bare bones Windows XP operating system. I started trying to get better SQ from rips when I bought a Plextor drive that was much better than the generic one in my PC. Then rips got much better when Exact Audio Copy (EAC) came along. I built a linear supply for the Plextor and an enclosure out of Baltic birch that I damped with automotive sound deadening sheets. Those two mods combined with shielding the ribbon cable were eye opening for me.
Then I left the Dark Side and got a late 2012 Core I7 Mac mini w/16G RAM and a Mach 2 software package. That was a completely different animal. The mini, without a jungle of cables running around inside, produced superior results. The Mach 2 software was revelatory. It was like several layers of veils were removed from the recordings. The noise floor is non-existent. The decay of notes was amazing. Mach 2 went away and the developer of that software package did a new build for Eric Hider (dB Audio Labs). That package is a 'bit' better and I see no reason to move on from this.
Like I noted before drive cases has always been a place to readily hear differences. This is due to the quality of the controller. Presently I am using a 1TB SSD in the mini for ultimate playback and use an WD 6TB drive as mass storage. The quality and types of cables used between the CD drive - a Mac SuperDrive - and the min as well as the WD drive is very important. I use a TWL/PI Discreet from the SuperDrive to the mini and a Firewire 800 cable from the WD to the mini.
Some things are a tad blurry in the time domain of what happened when in my journey, but at least I hit the high points. At 72 some things seem like they happened yesterday and somethings are iffy in order.
For streaming I have no qualms stateing that playing from files is still superior. No, I have plan to buying a streamer that sells for the price of a good used car. I use Tidal for general listening and when I want to preview something I might want a hard copy for. It is just too easy.
Finally: I have little use for hi-rez. There are millions of titles in Redbook out there. I have about 4 TB of them. It is a fact that we are still getting better at getting ALL of the data encoded on disc. Ripping at 88.2 is superior in SQ. 96kHz has decimation problems that are audible in the terms of hardness in the highs to my ears.