01-05-2011, 06:00 PM

I am trying to use my iMac as a music source using Pure Music software...the sound is great but I have found that some CD's ripped to the hard drive appear to be ripped corrupt (distortion, pops and clicks)

Am I correct in thinking this is a disk drive problem? If so, is there anything one can do short of expensive apple service to reduce the problem? Can one use a CD player CD cleaning disk in a computer drive?

Another item, a discovery...The mini optical output requires a mini to full size toslink adapter. The quality of that thing really matters. I have been driving a long glass (not plastic...the plastic added too much noise to the signal) toslink and putting the resulting audio quality problems off to Jitter caused by the long cable length, and some is BUT, when I replaced the trash $2 adapter with a new $20 Startech adapter, the change was immediate...almost all the grit and grunge in my high end went away...

01-05-2011, 08:55 PM

have you tried ripping the CDs with another software say for example itunes? And if so do you still get the same clicks in the ripped audio?

01-05-2011, 08:59 PM

Good question...I'll try it (iTunes does let me rip in WAV does it not)

01-05-2011, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by JIMV

Good question...I'll try it (iTunes does let me rip in WAV does it not)

I'm not 100% sure what you mean there. But you can rip CD's in itunes into: MP3, AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless and WAV. To find it on the latest version of itunes you need to go into:

Itunes prefrences -> General tab -> import settings button.
Took me a while to find this but it is there.