[dale55]

I am very new to computer music so I am going to post a question that is probably pretty basic, but I could really use some help. I am currently using a musical fidelity V90 USB dac connected to a Bravo Ocean headphone tube amp going to my Sennheiser 650 phones. My question is I also have a cd player connected via coax to the DAC as well. Would it give me better sound to simply use my cd player to listen to my cds, or should I rip them to Foobar and then upsample them?
 
I hope this makes sense. I am in the learning stage for sure. I have been an audiophile for many years, but just now getting into the computer music thing.
 
Any help would be much appreciated!
 
Dale

 

[PurpleAngel]

Rip your music CDs to your hard drive as 16-bit/44.1k FLAC music files, then play your music with Foobar2000 from your computer.
Should equal the music quality from playing CDs on the CD player.

 

[cel4145]

Rip your music CDs to your hard drive as 16-bit/44.1k FLAC music files, then play your music with Foobar2000 from your computer.
Should equal the music quality from play CDs on the CD player.

+1

EAC is a good free ripper that works well.

 

[Byrnie]

+1

EAC is a good free ripper that works well.

+1 I use EAC also!

 

[PleasantSounds]

Good advice so far. I am also using the EAC and find it excellent.
 
Regarding the upsampling mentioned by the OP: if you really really want, you can always do that on the fly while playing the ripped files. But there's absolutely no benefit in ripping the standard CDs into a higher resolution format. You would be just wasting disk space.

 

[dale55]

  Good advice so far. I am also using the EAC and find it excellent.
 
Regarding the upsampling mentioned by the OP: if you really really want, you can always do that on the fly while playing the ripped files. But there's absolutely no benefit in ripping the standard CDs into a higher resolution format. You would be just wasting disk space.

Thanks for the help. That is what I was really looking for. It sounds like ripping the cd to the hard drive is just for convenience sake, which is not what I was trying to accomplish. THANKS!
 
Dale

 

[One and a half]

Rip the CDs to your hard drive in a lossless format (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, DSF). The playback will always be better from a hard drive, since you remove the complex pit searching, and error correction, read jitter from a CD Player. Plus not to mention noise from the motor mechanism, and S/PDIF outputs.

 

[lycs8812]

+1 I use EAC also!

+1 use it also. It is simple and useful.