Ripping CD's to hard drive

What is the highest quality way to rip a collection of CD's to a hard drive? Does it require a high-end transport and DAC of some sort? How have others gone about this when loading their Lumin, Aurender, etc components?

cjlundberg03-04-2023 1:44pm

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lalitk Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,055 posts 03-04-2023 at 02:04pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @cjlundberg My suggestion would be to pick up a used Bluesound Vault 2 which will serve as CD ripper, storage and streamer/DAC. One box, that does it all. And choose .wav format to rip your CD’s. How many CD’s are you looking to rip? Vault has 2TB storage which can store roughly 2856 CDs. I owned Vault 2 for 5 years before moving on to Aurender ACS100, which offers much superior App interface to curate, metadata edits and access to my CD collection, all from iPad.
lalitk Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,055 posts 03-04-2023 at 06:53pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete “what type of CD drive is necessary/sufficient” The one that is designed to rip CD’s. As suggested above, connect a Vault 2 via SPDIF (digital coax) cable into your Integrated DAC input. Once you finish ripping your CD’s sit back and enjoy your ripped CD’s or browse / listen thousands of songs through cloud based providers like Tidal or Qobuz. If you want a primer on how to connect Vault to your network, search streaming in the forums. Lots of great info here.

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