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How Do I Rip a CD with Best results on a MacPro

I'm using XLD, but I have to download the CD in the computer and XLD burns from the computer. I would like to know if there are any improvements I can do to the computer for optimum results. As it stands now, the copied CD is not as good as the original.
128x128stringreen
learsfool
1,215 posts
 
Hi Stringreen - I do not do anything special, so you may get some better suggestions from others, and I look forward to some other responses. On the suggestion of a Mac using friend, I downloaded a free program called Burn, and that's all I use with my MacBook (though if iTunes doesn't see it first, this method does not work). It does however, always result in better sound in the copy than in the original, which is somewhat mysterious but true. I have never tried XLD or any other program to compare, though.
audioengr
3,282 posts
 
Using an outboard USB CDROM drive with C2 error correction is recommended.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
foster_9
1,638 posts
 
Audioengr, what are examples of an outboard USB CDROM drive with C2 error correction? I own a Macbook Pro too.

Is there an inexpensive way to achieve a better quality CD copy than the original?
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