Well, ripping an audio CD is an art of its own and comes with numerous caveats. If you want to use an external USB drive, buy an internal drive and get a high quality external case for it… this is much better than buying a low accuracy external drive.Use FLAC (lossless) as destination format.C2 may hide errors before delivering raw data.EAC does error correction by reading multiple times.DISABLE C2 error correction (even if supported, most drives have bad implementations, so you want EAC doing the error correction).Use Exact Audio Copy (EAC, Windows Only) with the guide’s settings, if you really wanna archive your audio CD content in best possible quality.Some of the listed drives are no longer available or very expensive - maybe try to find one in used but good condition, that is not too old or worn out.Try your existing drive before buying one - it may support all required features and it is not that important to have the most accurate one.Have fun! Hardware listing Recommendations

Recently I found a neat listing in the dbPowerAmp forum, but I added some information as well as ways to filter and sort. Therefore, I need an accurate ripping device for my audio CD collection.

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