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Ripping To WAV

If disc space was not a problem and I bought say a 200 gig drive. I wanted to copy 200 CD's to that drive, but thought that even ripping to mp3 at 320 bps still left me feeling that it fell short on the quality  I wanted when playing through amp and speakers.
Would I be right in saying the very best ripping method would be ripping to WAV. If that is so and I used the EAC software which failed some CD's due to their poor quality (borrowed CD's). What else could I try, as when I did rip as mp3 on EAC / Lame and these CD's failed, I could fall back on WMP and plug in, which would rip anything. Hope you can understand what I'm on about

Ripping To WAV

Reply #1 –
Try using EAC and go lossless, that way you won't lose quality anymore.

Next time, do a search, I'm sure that kind of things have been answered before.

/edit: I'm not pushing you to do something you don't want. It has been proven that EAC offers the best rip quality due to the secure ripping mode, and going lossless will give you the chance to transcode any song you want to lossy for portable use. It's up to you what are you going to use.
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Reply #3 –
Try another ripper called CDex. But frankly EAC has the same stuff and more. If you haven't been using secure mode in EAC, use it. It may help rip those old and dirty cds.
 

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Reply #4 –
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If disc space was not a problem and I bought say a 200 gig drive. I wanted to copy 200 CD's to that drive, but thought that even ripping to mp3 at 320 bps still left me feeling that it fell short on the quality  I wanted when playing through amp and speakers.

Is this fact?
Have you actually tested? Or maybe could it be your unfriendly neighborhood, placebo?
If so, I would go with any lossless format. They have THE SAME quality as the original, at about 60% percent the size.

As for those dirty/scratched CDs, I would try a physical method, such as SkipDoctor and then EAC again.
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