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Welcome Mark!

If natural sound is what you want, you've come to the right place. I say don't do the home loan though; cut out the middle-man and just buy it now!
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So much so I'm now converting my music collection from mp3 to AIFF to get the best from my amp.

Hi Mark, Welcome! I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.
I'm curious as to why you are re-ripping all your CDs, I assume that's what you're doing, to full fat AIFF rather to one of the lossless formats such as FLAC or ALAC.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Chris Firth Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 Jul 2015 at 9:05am
Originally posted by ICL1P ICL1P wrote:

Originally posted by maddog maddog wrote:


So much so I'm now converting my music collection from mp3 to AIFF to get the best from my amp.

Hi Mark, Welcome! I'm sure you'll enjoy it here.
I'm curious as to why you are re-ripping all your CDs, I assume that's what you're doing, to full fat AIFF rather to one of the lossless formats such as FLAC or ALAC.


Hi from me too.

The way Mark's comment reads he's intending to convert his MP3s to AIFF, not rerip his CD collection to AIFF.
Converting the MP3s is a waste of time - they're data deficient to start with, and converting them to AIFF will just create a load of data deficient AIFF files.
Reripping the CDs is the only way to go, and it's best from a sound quality perspective to perform secure rips.

Because AIFFs are mentioned I reckon that Mark is using a Mac computer of some sort.
In the same boat I'd be ripping to ALAC, and I'd be using a ripping tool capable of performing secure rips.
XLD is one such tool.


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ICL1P Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 Jul 2015 at 9:38am
Chris, I was concerned for the same reason as you and like you I use XLD to rip to ALAC.
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I'm another XLD user, but I rip to FLAC as playing the files on Apple devices isn't a high priority for me (though of course there are Apps and programmes that do allow FLAC playback).
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re ripping cd's and I use iTunes and an iPod which doesn't support FLAC, only AIFF
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ICL1P Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 Jul 2015 at 11:28am
Originally posted by maddog maddog wrote:

re ripping cd's and I use iTunes and an iPod which doesn't support FLAC, only AIFF
Check you iTunes Preferences.  It'll allow ripping to Apple Lossless aka ALAC.  This'll save you a lot of space relative to AIFF.
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