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I think so too. :-) Thank you very much, all of you, for your quick and kind assistance - it has been a great help and I am very grateful to you all!

Thank you very much for all your kind comments and suggestions, for which I am very grateful! I must admit *embarrased* that until now I actually had not tried to re-rip those rips plagued by noise, but just now I have done so with the first one; Norah Jones: "Come Away With Me", which also was the worst one, and there seems to be no noise on this second rip that I have just made. I am naturally very happy with this, as you can imagine! :-) Here is the full EAC report of the latest rip: Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011 EAC extraction logfile from 27. January 2014, 23:36 Jones, Norah / Come Away With Me Used drive : ASUS SBC-06D2X-U Adapter: 1 ID: 0 Read mode : Secure Utilize accurate stream : Yes Defeat audio cache : No Make use of C2 pointers : Yes Read offset correction : 48 Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000 Gap handling : Not detected, thus appended to previous track Used output format : Internal WAV Routines Sample format : 44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo TOC of the extracted CD Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector --------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 0:00.00 | 3:06.12 | 0 | 13961 2 | 3:06.12 | 2:25.20 | 13962 | 24856 3 | 5:31.32 | 3:38.45 | 24857 | 41251 4 | 9:10.02 | 2:57.28 | 41252 | 54554 5 | 12:07.30 | 3:18.17 | 54555 | 69421 6 | 15:25.47 | 3:56.63 | 69422 | 87184 7 | 19:22.35 | 2:34.60 | 87185 | 98794 8 | 21:57.20 | 3:06.07 | 98795 | 112751 9 | 25:03.27 | 4:13.25 | 112752 | 131751 10 | 29:16.52 | 2:42.03 | 131752 | 143904 11 | 31:58.55 | 3:05.55 | 143905 | 157834 12 | 35:04.35 | 4:12.15 | 157835 | 176749 13 | 39:16.50 | 2:44.60 | 176750 | 189109 14 | 42:01.35 | 3:07.57 | 189110 | 203191 Track 1 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 01 - Don't Know Why.wav Peak level 98.7 % Extraction speed 9.6 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 38A6EA5A Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [15E3DA02] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 2 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 02 - Seven Years.wav Peak level 92.9 % Extraction speed 11.6 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC FB45B025 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [4297802F] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 3 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 03 - Cold Cold Heart.wav Peak level 91.7 % Extraction speed 12.5 X Track quality 99.9 % Copy CRC 9F085374 Accurately ripped (confidence 69) [9198E79C] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 4 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 04 - Feelin' The Same Way.wav Peak level 93.2 % Extraction speed 13.3 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC E6916ABE Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [27AA484E] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 5 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 05 - Come Away With Me.wav Peak level 92.9 % Extraction speed 14.1 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 8FA8A879 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [44B88EEC] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 6 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 06 - Shoot The Moon.wav Peak level 93.2 % Extraction speed 15.0 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 9517829C Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [08B28759] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 7 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 07 - Turn Me On.wav Peak level 93.2 % Extraction speed 15.7 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 532BCB2A Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [606AB526] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 8 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 08 - Lonestar.wav Peak level 91.8 % Extraction speed 16.2 X Track quality 99.8 % Copy CRC CE7709CA Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [4A0C5421] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 9 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 09 - I've Got To See You Again.wav Peak level 93.1 % Extraction speed 17.0 X Track quality 99.9 % Copy CRC B26680E9 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [F743545D] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 10 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 10 - Painter Song.wav Peak level 93.2 % Extraction speed 17.7 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 67609C77 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [C23E8292] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 11 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 11 - One Flight Down.wav Peak level 98.7 % Extraction speed 18.2 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC CE11F232 Accurately ripped (confidence 71) [DF555472] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 12 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 12 - Nightingale.wav Peak level 98.7 % Extraction speed 18.9 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 44FCD9A6 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [F7F49799] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 13 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 13 - The Long Day Is Over.wav Peak level 91.7 % Extraction speed 19.5 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC 2C25DE8F Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [926180BB] (AR v2) Copy OK Track 14 Filename E:\Music\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me\Jones, Norah - Come Away With Me - 14 - The Nearness Of You.wav Peak level 89.5 % Extraction speed 20.1 X Track quality 100.0 % Copy CRC D9FD1358 Accurately ripped (confidence 70) [382EF9F2] (AR v2) Copy OK All tracks 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Ironically, the noise I still have on way too many of my rips is similar to what can be heard right from the beginning of this video, except that it on many of my rips is even (much!) worse - although at no point is the noise so bad as to be louder than the music: It would thus seem then that my problem could be solved by "simply" ripping and re-ripping until I am satisfied with the result, although it of course is somewhat annoying having to perform multiple rips of the same cd instead of just doing it once and have it over and done with... Perhaps it is just my ignorance or impatience talking here, but is it common that one has to perform multiple rips of the same cd in order to get a decent one without noise, or could it be an indication of an unstable/malfunctioning drive? I certainly would not mind saving the >100€ on a new drive + the space on my desktop, which is already more than sufficiently cluttered with electronics and cables, but if it on the other hand is likely to save me many hours of re-ripping and in addition perhaps give me better rips, then it might just be worth it... Any thoughts on this too? I hope you will forgive me for taking the liberty and taking advantage of the occasion to share just a few more doubts with you here concerning things that might impact negatively on my system's music reproducation, and which I also would be very grateful for some comments on; I use a mini-itx computer that I have built myself with an internal SSD, but all my music is stored on an external standard USB 3.0 harddrive connected to the computer with the stock USB cable. The CPU is a pentium i3 3225, 3.3 GHz, socket LGA1155, 32 GB (with intel integrated graphics) cooled by the stock fans that came with the CPU and the Lian Li PC-Q12B case, inside which the rest is mounted, respectively. Apart from my optical drive, I assume that the fans, my harddrive and its connection to my computer are the weakest links of my system at present, but before remedying any of these, I would, as just said, highly appreciate some views on these issues; which of these weak links do you consider to be most serious, and what do you consider to be the best way to solve them? PS. I don't mind that some people do not believe in differences between cables and other stuff considered "vodoo", but, while I do believe I most often am able to hear differences, then this is not a discussion I wish to enter in this thread, as I know it can go on eternally without any agreement ever reached but often provoking a lot of unnecessary anger as well as other strong and negative emotions that I prefer to avoid. However, I do more than welcome any suggestions as to how I could improve what I suspect to be the weak links in my system, no matter the perspective and beliefs of those making those suggestions. I mean no offence to anyone, so hopefully nor is any taken.

Hi, I am new on this forum, despite having been an enthuthiastic, albeit irregular, reader here for years. The reason why I have just registered is that I have a problem that I very much hope that some of the wise and helpful members here can help me find the solution to... My problem consists in noise on several of my ripped cd albums - but not all, despite the fact that all of my rips are being done on the same computer with the same optical drive, same software (EAC + JRiver) and all cables etc. being the same as well. Personally I find it most likely that the noise comes from my external, USB-powered, Asus Blu-Ray slim-line combo drive (SBC-06D2XU), but I am by no means certain, so that is what I hope that you will help me to determine. The Asus drive is only slightly more than half a year old, yet it does often make quite a bit of noise when in use, and its vibrations are furthermore easily heard and felt on the desk, and this has been so ever since the day I bought it, although I did not give it much consideration back then, especially since I did not have any decent computer audio equipment until recently. The other parts of my system consist of a Violectric V800 DAC + Violectric V200 head-amp + Audeze LCD2.v2. and Musical Fidelity X-T100 integrated amp + Dali Menuet speakers, all placed on my desktop with what I consider to be more than decent cabling (from van den Hul and AudioQuest among others). If it most likely is my drive that is at fault, then I am considering buying the following drive from Buffalo as a replacement, and I would naturally be very grateful for any informed or reasoned comment on whether it is likely to be a better drive than the one I have and solve my noise problems (my main reason for selecting this one is that it looks like a sturdy build, it has an external power supply and it has a USB 3.0 connection, but I do not have a chance to test the drive before making the purchase): http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00BQTJ1DQ/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p147_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3JWKAKR8XB7XF&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1KRZF4554QEA92T0K416&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455353687&pf_rd_i=301128 Any thoughts?