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hey besides exact audio copy...what about burning

ok most of us here in audiogon land agree/like exact audio copy as the best for getting a song from a cd to hard drive.yeah i'm on that bandwagon too ! sorry..ha ha :)

what oh what can satisfy an audiophile as have 'the best'/best sounding/most 'accurate' whatever 'cd burning engine' your recommendations.... :)

i'm babbling.yeah. but i'm thinking ala digital transport/dac sort of thing. extract with exact audio copy burn with ?? is there a program known for the quality(sound wise) of it's 'burned' disc ala eac is known for it's extraction skills. ??

and what about those pesky mp3 files/ what working in audiogon land for conversion to wave files or whatever?? am i making an sense?? and could someone ask these questions so i wouldn't have to. ha ha.... :)

ok it's junkfood and nap time for me.hoping for a reply or two.. :)
deluxe
rsbeck
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Deluxe -- "my mental age is about 11 and i'd love the money..."

LOL. No, no, no. That won't do. When I run a child labor sweat shop, it
has to be real children or else it loses something.
edesilva
768 posts
 
The netgear USB NAS sounds very intriguing--is there public info on it anywhere? The one issue I have with that my bad experience with an external drive. My Maxtor 120GB drive crapped out after 6 mo., and while they replaced it, I just don't trust it. I'd much rather have a rack of SCSI drives... Prpixel, if I understand right, you can use an NAS with an audiotron, its just more expensive, right?

BTW, there are commercial companies that will rip your CDs for you. I looked at that, but the cost was pretty high and, at the time, you didn't get much control over how they did it. Didn't work for me.

PS--Deluxe, sorry about hijacking your thread on these sidenotes. (oops!)
prpixel
876 posts
 
Edesilva,

You can use IP adressable NAS with the audiotron. The Ximeta NAS drives will not work with Audiotron. The Netgear USB NAS adapter was introduced at CES and is scheduled to start shipping in May or June. Being in the computer industry for over 25 years I've found that the biggest threat to hard drives is heat. If they are not well ventilated they will bake themselves. In all that time I've only had one drive fail in my own computers; an IBM XP series drive. Luckly I caught it before it failed and was able to clone it onto another drive. Sent it back to IBM and they replaced it under warranty. So. if your going to do an external HD make sure there's a fan in the enclosure. Sometimes the fans in external enclosures can be noisy, so you might want to look into replacing it with a good quality low noise ballbearing fan.
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