Should I get a CD Player?

[audiventory]

2 hours ago, Rounder44 said:

I wonder if my losses from ripping with the above are perceivable with such a system? Of course I'll be upgrading over the years so planning for the future as well.

 

Main aims of CD-ripping system are:

• maximal probability of correct error detection,
• minimal probability of wrong error detection,
• maximally correct restoration of damaged information.

I'm CD-ripper developer. And, I don't know about modern CD ripper that guarantee 100% correct ripping: when ripped file is binary identical original record.

 

As rule, for safe CD-ripping systems errors are corrected at 2 stages:

• into CD-drive (as far as I know, different implementations);
• into CD-ripper (different implementations).

I.e. it is multistage process and result may depend on system [CD-drive+CD-ripper]. Unfortunatelly, I don't know about independent serious comparisons of CD-ripping systems.

 

But, I think, that you needn't worry about the errors after safe ripping. Because, practically, audible errors are rare enough.

 

Read details https://samplerateconverter.com/content/safe-audio-cd-ripping-technology

 

Also you needn't worry about jitter, because, as rule, in audio system several asycronous FIFO buffers and stable clock generators.

Read details here https://samplerateconverter.com/educational/what-is-jitter-audio