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A to D to SACD to A: A Natural Progression?

Despite having purged my collection of the obvious excess, I still clutter my apartment with hundreds of redbook CDs, most of which I never listen to and even when I do I find it a mediocre and unengaging experience.

For many of my pop recordings and even some jazz, there are one or two tracks only that I wish to keep and the rest I truly never listen to.

Which makes me wonder: as much as it might make me roll over in my audiophile grave, would it make sense just to copy 2-300 CDs to a hard drive and then put them in storage or chuck them? What is the best way to do this?

Then, having blissfully cleared my living and listening space from this cluttered, mediocre medium, the only jewel boxes remaining would be SACDs for my trusty SCD-1 after which I could allocate the rest of my space, budget, time, shelves and audiophile obsession to a super high end analogue rig.

Does this make sense? Has anyone else evolved in this direction? Maybe its just me, but I still rarely get a kick out of redbook. And in the mean time, my shelves are a mess.

Thanks for your thoughts.
cwlondon
cwlondon OP
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Onhwy61:

Thank You!!! Exactly the advice I needed, and I can use the Mac for other things as well.

I guess what I meant was: A to D to SACD to (SACD+A+HD).

Reb1208: I am not an SCD-1 groupie, but I can't imagine its that bad on redbook and I think it sounds pretty good on a well recorded SACD. My Levinson didn't do it for me either.

By the way, when can we do this just as easily with DVDs with good video performance? A high resolution movie jukebox! Now that would be cool.

And also help me chuck more clutter.
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onhwy61
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Cwlondon, one word of caution - I don't know how loud the fan in the iMac is. I had to place my G4 within an enclosed cabinet in order to dampen the noise. Things are never as simple as they could be.
sogood51
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There is a company out that sells a easy to use all in one DVD ripper. They tried it out not long ago and said it makes exact copies. The only problem is that a lot of movies are to much data for one DVD. All computer DVD'r are the same size, a little over 4 gigs I think they said so some must be split to two DVD's. They said the program takes care of that for you. I guess this company brought out this program and filed a law suit against hollywood right off the bat under some fair use act or something like that. The tester was techtv.com which also has a cable channel for all things computer related.
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