Ripping hardware

I've had decent luck with CD Recovery Toolbox. It has ripped some pretty scratched up CDs for me. Free and worth a try. 

https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/cd_recovery_toolbox_free.html

@alaric62 Thanks, will give it a try.

@alaric62 Installed the software, but only makes a copy of the CDA files (which contain nothing). 

@kraftwerkturbo asks “…how bad are my rips…”

The obvious answer is another question:”How do they sound to you?”

My ripper streamer is the Melco-N100.  The optical ripper, which can also be used as a CD transport, was purchased separately.  My first batch of CDs ripped to the HD was done with Apple’s optical device, which I believe cost around $75 years ago, and the Melco optical device cost around $1K.

  Just last night I played both versions of a CD that I had inadvertently ripped with both devices.  While I still prefer the Melco ripper, the difference wasn’t that great.  I could have probably lived happily with the Apple rip, but as we audiophiles know, once you’ve heard a slight improvement it’s hard to go back.

  Is the Melco ripper 10 times better?  No it’s more like scoring 100% on a test versus 94%..  I probably thought different when the Melco Optical player was the newest toy in the system 

Just for discussion: if there are such "big" differences between different transports (devices that optically read CD and spit out zeros and ones, from $30 to likely $3,000, I'm sure someone has thrown together a $30,000 transport), shouldn't there be a similar "big" difference between "CD drives" (connect to computer; spitting out zeros and ones AFAID)?