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How to improve ripping

The same issues apply ripping as apply to playing CDs. It problems in both cases occur in the laser reading process. Achieve better sound by ensuring CD is absolutely level during play, the level of the spinning CD is usually not the same as the top of the player or ripper so you have to figure out a different way to obtain level of CD. The reason level is important is because the CD tends to wobble and flutter at 250 rpm if it's not level, plus many CDs are not perfectly round which exacerbates the problem. Also damping the CD with three radial strips of black electrical tape, 3M 33 and Super 88 are superb.

Like the CD player the ripper should be isolated mechanically from the floor.

The tray of the ripper should be treated to absorb as much infrared light as possible. Turquoise or green, like the green pen of yore, is OK, but NDM is much better because it absorbs all light, included invisible light, which is what the CD laser uses, 780 nm near infrared light. Only about 1/4 of the CD laser light is RED, the other 3/4 is invisible. But you can still hear the effect of the green pen on a CD or coloring the tray turquoise or green, the color that absorbs red light.

Use black marker on inner edge of the CD, but purple on the outer edge. Never use black on the outer edge.


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