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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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jax2
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If you have a Mac, DO NOT use AAC. AAC is compressed. Use Apple Lossless for the best quality.

I would recommend Apples non-compressed format, AIFF, if you are on a Mac. Also MAX software has vigorous error correction (discussed above) which will take longer to rip with, but is the best guarantee of bit-for-bit rips. I don't think the error correction in iTunes is as good. I've had disks that MAX takes very long to rip that iTunes seems to blast right through with error correction turned on. External drives/transports may be slower than internal, even if both drives share the same specs, depending entirely upon the interface they have to your computer. I think the software's error-correction will be more important than the drive (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
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