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Jay Fora:
I ripped a CD  to FLAC 6, and didn't enjoy the resulting sound quality. This was my first attempt using MC to rip a CD. The music on this classical CD has a quality and wide range between low and high notes that makes my brain zing and sends me to aural  heaven!
When ripped the resulting track reduced the range, so that instead the sound was like the sound track of a sleepy sunday afternoon movie. Like gooey caramel.
Is there a setting somewhere that would copy the CD with sound quality close to identical withe the original?
Or a completely different approach?
Thanks, Jay

tij:
Ripping ordinary CD (Red Book) supposed to be lossless process - exact bit to bit copy of audio from CD ... with no DSP applied.

Maybe your CD is SACD? In that case your PC can only rip Red Book layer. DSD layer cannot be ripped from PC.

Ripping SACD is a complex process ... involving some compomised players hook up to your PC. There are some companies that can do it for you if you send them your SACD.

AndrewFG:

Rip Disk | Options | Encoding | => select a lossless format (such as Flac, ALAC or Wav)

EnglishTiger:
Check the case/booklet for that CD to see if it is a 24 bit recording - If it is then you may want to rip it with dBpoweramp with HDCD detection switched on so that you get a 24 bit Flac file.

JimH:

--- Quote from: Jay Fora on July 18, 2020, 09:27:34 pm ---I ripped a CD  to FLAC 6, and didn't enjoy the resulting sound quality. This was my first attempt using MC to rip a CD. The music on this classical CD has a quality and wide range between low and high notes that makes my brain zing and sends me to aural  heaven!
When ripped the resulting track reduced the range, so that instead the sound was like the sound track of a sleepy sunday afternoon movie. Like gooey caramel.

--- End quote ---
Could just be the volume setting.  Volume leveling, and other DSP can affect the volume and that will change how it sounds.

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