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The demise of the music CD inevitable?

Hi,

Back on campus, my senior year. Everywhere I look, its all earbuds and cell phones streaming audio. None of my friends would even consider purchasing a CD! I as well almost completely stopped purchasing CD's now that I have lossless streaming from TIDAL. It seems that SQ is not an issue anymore for this generation, its content that is most important and there is no loss of it out there in the streaming world.
grm
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sbank
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Before you rip to the new drive be careful how you format your hard drive if you plan to ever use it with MAC, Windows, or BOTH. A painful lesson if you don't pay attention. 

If you get an Oppo 103 or 105 or certain Sony Playstation models, you can rip files from SACD to your hard drive. Cheers,
Spencer
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@sbank ,
I am curious on how you can rip SACD (DSD layer) to hard drive using Oppo 105/103. Can you please explain?
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http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f11-software/sacd-ripping-using-oppo-or-pioneer-yes-its-true-29251...

Cheers,
Spencer
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That is awesome. Thanks for the link Spencer!
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Hi,
I own an ancient Samsung BD/SACD player and a Sony BD/SACD player and would like to attempt an SACD Rip. However, I found the above procedural link to be a bit confusing, I am running Windows 7 on my PC and my BD/SACD players are hardwired on my LAN. Also, the SACD's I plan to Rip are Hybrid SACD's and all I care about is the two channel layer. Once, if successful, I Rip an SACD to my PC, what exactly is the file format going to be on my PC?

Thank you for the help!
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