...and here lies the problem; when you rip, you take the entire bit range off the CD as raw data before processing. This means that if you have been used to a particular reproduction standard of audio playback from a given CD drive, you will inevitably surprised by the difference in sound from a rip since the ripping software is working with different source material to your CD player in the form of extra data.

I don't understand this part, Rob. Are you saying that the ripping process uses the data that is actually on the disk, and thus is processing different sound (content) than the (error-masked) play-back of audio equipment?

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