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Who listens primarily to Redbook CD?

My primary (only, actually) source is a CEC TL5 Transport feeding an Audio Note Kit 1.1 NOS DAC through a Cerious Technologies Graphene Extreme AES/EBU digital cable. They are both decked out with CT GE power cords, Synergistic Research Quantum Black fuses, Herbie's Audio Lab Tenderfeet isolation footers, plus other misc. tweaks.

Sounds great, and I have very little desire to add another source. Pretty much all the music I want is available on CD, and is usually quite cheap. I hope to upgrade to an AN factory DAC (3.1x/II, or better, would be nice), and a Teo Audio liquid metal digital cable (I have their Game Changer ICs, and absolutely love them!) in the future.

Who else is happy with Redbook CD as their primary source?
tommylion

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stfoth
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--The tech is way over my head, but is it possible that a cd ripped to a hard drive, particularly a SSD can also sound better because:

1. Ripping can take many, many passes over the disc to try to get a perfect copy, whereas;

2. A typical cd player just takes one pass and, whether lightly buffered or not, uses error correction;

3. So that the copy might actually be a more accurate digital representation, with fewer errors to correct?

Just a WAG, but it’s not like an analog tape copied to another or like Doug Four in Michael Keaton’s Multiplicity. "I like pizza, Steve." "I got a wallet."

--I listen to CDs, but have been considered ripping them to a Vault 2 or something similar.
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