Transport rips to hard drive?

If computer can read data CDs it should be able to read music CDs. There are programs that read music CD as data. They force transport to read given sector many times if necessary, to obtain correct checksum.

CDP uses Cross Interleaved Reed Solomon error correction code that interpolates missing data. CDPs operate in real time and reads given sector only once.

Kijanki is correct. A computer can read the data better because it's a totally different process. Some software and drives "promise" better performance, and sometimes drives can have alignment problems, but overall, digital data is better archived and retrieved by a computer.

This is why I very confidently state that a digital music file sounds better than a CD transport. Good examples of this are the Linn DS and Naim products. Even people who have used entry level digital music systems will agree that they rival CD players costing much more.

I'm not going arguing against CDs. I still buy CDs, and if someone doesn't want to mess with a computer/network music system then they should stay with using a CD player, but the fact is, a digital music file can sound extremely good.

Use EAC (exact audio copy). You don't need any special drive.

What Bigbucks said. Use EAC and rip to either FLAC or WAV (hard drive space is cheap nowadays), or AAC if on a Mac.

Go to hydrogenaudio.com and learn more.