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Redbook Keeps Surprising

I was a Best Buy to get a memory card reader for my computer. Looked at the CDs and saw a few in the bargain bin that I would like to have, only a few dollars. Came home, ripped them with DB power amp, picked the best cover art. Transferred to my Aurender through the NAS and played away. WOW, impressive sound and I really enjoyed them both. I like the High Res downloads and my SACD collection but am often really impressed by good Redbook CD. It really is the music that counts. 
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oregonpapa
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Cleeds ...

No offense taken at all. :-)

I just wanted to make the point of how good cassettes can sound in the car environment. I also have transferred all of my best sales training cassettes over to CD's. 
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Just wanted to add my take on Redbook ...PCM based players, specifically Burr Brown DAC 's have always sounded better to my ears.  My Krell Cipher sounds spectacular on RB!
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oregonpapa
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This has been a very interesting thread.  

I have a question though. If some of you are ripping red book CD's to a hard drive, then donating or selling the original CD's, aren't you worried that your hard drive will crash at some future date and all of your music will be lost and your hard work will be for naught? 

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kijanki
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oregonpapa, backups are for that. I have two backups - second one just in case of something bad happening while copying. This second backup resides at my workplace (fire, theft etc). It doesn’t make any difference to me whether I have original CD or not - I just don’t want to rip huge number of of CDs again.
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Redbook ripped to WAV, FLAC or AIFF sounds amazing on my system!  It makes up a lot of my listening and plays a big part in my review that just went live this morning:

http://ayllonmedia.com/news/the-lampizator-dsd-komputer-an-audio-expo-in-your-living-room-or-not
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