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Transport rips to hard drive?

ok, i gather that most people going PC Audio are ripping CDs from their desktop/laptop to their hard drive. seems the trouble there could be a flimsy transport in the desk/laptop that causes a less than optimal rip.

better way is if you could read the CD with a dedicated, audiophool approved transport and then send its output directly to the hard drive, or to the PC as a digital stream for it to input and it encode to the hard drive.

is it possible for either:
A) an external HD to accept a transport's digital stream directly (i doubt it)
B) a PC to accept a digital input stream for it to use as data to be burned to a hard drive?

programs / hardware / IO board recommendations are welcome!
thx
128x128rhyno

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audioengr
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Transports are used to achieve real-time low-jitter. This is not required for a good rip, only a clean error-free data read. Transports with the lowest jitter may not be the best ripping drives due to error correction and offset.

However, the CDROM drives in laptops and desktops are generally inferior to the best ripping CDROM drives. There have been studies, notably by RIPNAS to determine which drives achieve the best rips and do all of the error correction properly. The findings showed that a Teac drive was the best. I use this drive with excellent results. See this for more info:

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=68223.0

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
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