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Is Itunes OK to rip CD's to AIFF?

I'm ripping a lot of of CD's and putting them on a network server so I can access them from any computer/stereo system in my house. Does any one know of any blinded listening studies where they compared Itunes-ripped wave files (AIFF) to AIFF ripped by another program? If no studies, is there any technical reason (and I'm no computer expert) that an Itunes ripped AIFF might be inferior to an AIFF file ripped by another program?
ldworet
audioengr
3,282 posts
 
Laurence - The tags are all there if you rip AIFF with XLD. Album art isn't.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
ldworet OP
48 posts
 
Steve, thanks as always, one last question for me and others looking online to buy a C2 correcting drive that did well in the tests: if I (or other readers) get the Teac DW-2124 SL (which is the one that tested so well at

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=17274

and I believe that it's one of the drives you use), I assume we can be reasonably comfortable in thinking that it's also probably got C2 correction turned on, right?
ldworet OP
48 posts
 
Steve replied in an email:

LD: I'm presuming the TEAC DW-224SL CE-RE?SLOT Slot drive you have has the C2 error correcting built in, right?

S: Yes.

LD: If so, that's the one I'll get. I think I speak for many when I say you're a beacon of helpful knowledge in a dark big sea.

S: thanks. Much of this is already posted on my webpage here:

http://www.empiricalaudio.com/computer-audio/
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