I use a Bluesound Vault 2 to rip to Flac. Played back through my Vault or one of my Nodes, it sounds much better than any of my CD players, which admittedly, aren’t high end. But I suspect that the "bit perfect" rip and the quite good on board DAC is competitive with most CD players regardless of price.
What are you using to rip your cds to a hard drive?
I had been using the cd drive in my old laptop to rip cds to my external hard drive. I have since bought a new laptop that does not have a cd drive. To get a cd into the computer I am using a cheap external disc reader. What are you guys using to spin those silver discs into hard drives? I think I need something better than what I have, but I don't think I want to spend thousands of dollars to buy a disc drive. My budget would be less than $1,000,
What do you think?
What do you think?