Is Itunes OK to rip CD's to AIFF?

Here are some good ripping drives with C2 correction:

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=68223.0

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

Steve, thanks for helping out. I haven't run the test that Paulofbrecht did but I'll certainly try it too. I'm afraid I'll have the same result. Oh, boy, and I've ripped thousands of CD's in Itunes with error correction on. But my goal is still to end up with AIFF so I can share music with my kids (who use Macs), but I want to keep all the tags, track names, etc. that Itunes provides. If on a PC, I use dppoweramp and rip to WAV (is that the right format to go to?: 1) will the tracks and tags come over, and 2) can I then convert WAV to AIFF and bring those converted AIFF into Itunes, but preserving the tag, track info? Thanks again for all of us. Laurence

Another few questions, Steve, after I looked at your link: http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=17274. 1) Is there any way to get the Teac CD-224E in an external holder and plug it in via USB to any computer? 2) Any idea if the CD-224's listed for specific laptops like Dell work in other laptops? I have some late model IBM/Lenovo's? Ie, Do you know if the size of the drive frame and the connections are standard? Thanks again.

Lawrence wrote:
"1) Is there any way to get the Teac CD-224E in an external holder and plug it in via USB to any computer?"

This is what I have, an external USB drive.

"2) Any idea if the CD-224's listed for specific laptops like Dell work in other laptops?"

Laptops vary a lot. Hard to tell. Get an external version.

If you want AIFF, then use XLD with Accurate-Rip to rip on the Mac:

http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html

Avoid iTunes on a PC:

http://www.empiricalaudio.com/computer-audio/

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

I now believe that the reason the 2nd rip of Beethoven's 9th sounded like Stairway was that I accidentally used a Zeppelin CD.

This casts some doubt on the entire experiment.