Optical USB drive for ripping

I want to rip cd’s to a Melco server. See quite a few under the 125.00 range. Any favorites?

I know I can rip these over my network. Bits are bits yada,yada but somehow things that should sound the same never do. Just want to try this .

Also will these drives read the cd layer from a Hybrid SACD?

Thanks

benzman03-08-2023 4:56pm

curiousjim Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,124 posts 03-08-2023 at 08:34pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete You can’t rip a SACD the same way as a CD. Sony made sure of that years ago, however, if you buy one of about a dozen Sony CD players or Play Stations from yesteryear and use some open source software that’s floating around on the web, you can rip a SACD to a DFS file. Oh and the files are huge! I’ve done it, it works, but almost all the albums are on Qobuz and Amazon HD now.