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shieber:
I don't think this is a Pono issue so I thought it would be okay to throw this out to the larger group for suggestions anyway.

I've ripped CDs to FLAC using default settings in PMW 20.0.72 (Pono version). During Ponoplayer playback, with many clasical recordings I am getting small, sharp clicks in the background, sometimes even in the simpler passages with only a few instruments. The clicks seems to occur in the exact same place with each playing of a track so it it is likely something in the flac track.

Likely suspects: need slower ripping speed? (rip setting is curreently at default, i.e., max); Bad Drive (alas seems all optis are pretty poor quality these days)? Some buffer or latency setting? All the woodwind players in the world badly need to replace their keypads?

This is happening using four diff optis so I don't think it's siply a bad drive problem.

tia

ferday:
Not sure what pmw is as a ripping program?

The easy thing to try is to rip to a .wav, see if the clicks are there.  Or even high bitrate MP3.  Just as a test

There are other things to try but again, did you mean MC20 not PMW 20?

BryanC:

--- Quote from: ferday on March 12, 2015, 09:57:44 am ---Not sure what pmw is as a ripping program?

The easy thing to try is to rip to a .wav, see if the clicks are there.  Or even high bitrate MP3.  Just as a test

There are other things to try but again, did you mean MC20 not PMW 20?


--- End quote ---

PMW is the custom MC version for Pono.

6233638:
Are you using secure ripping? That should prevent errors, no matter the rip speed.

iant54:
I've had problems even with Secure Rip.  It gives up after a certain number of retries (16?) so you can still get clicks.  I recently ripped my entire CD collection (600+) and I've already noticed a few that need to be re-ripped because of clicks and dropouts.

If the rip goes really slow (x1 or less) then you need to clean the CD and retry it.

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