I think that the only reason that some manufacturers include rippers in their streamers is for customer convenience - there's no need to use ripping s/w on a PC or Mac. I havent actually seen any claims that these integrated rippers produce better rips.
I actually don't think it's too difficult to get a 'perfect' rip. Some people have in the past claimed that their rips sound better than other - at one time even conservative Naim claimed this but those claims have now quietly been dropped.
Most ripping software compares the rips produced to an accurate rip database and reports any discrepancies. As long as you use zero compression for ripping there's no reason why a rip made by e.g. DBPoweramp in a PC should sound any different to a rip made by XLD on a Mac
I actually don't think it's too difficult to get a 'perfect' rip. Some people have in the past claimed that their rips sound better than other - at one time even conservative Naim claimed this but those claims have now quietly been dropped.
Most ripping software compares the rips produced to an accurate rip database and reports any discrepancies. As long as you use zero compression for ripping there's no reason why a rip made by e.g. DBPoweramp in a PC should sound any different to a rip made by XLD on a Mac
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