I have about 400 CD's ripped via itunes into Apple lossless (with checking enabled) but was probabaly going to redo the process on the basis that the Sooloos would be better at finding all the metadata, album covers etc, my current rips are a bit of an assortment in how compilations etc are sorted. As others do, I use album artist so a bit worrying re Sooloos.

Is the Sooloos inhouse ripping the best there is or does dBpoweramp have any advantages.

Also have about 50 DVD-A to rip in 2 channel, this is one of the major benefits over the Sonus. I might be pushing the storage on the control 15 a bit, does any one have a rough rule of thumb as to how many CD's is equal to the storage of 1, 2 channel DVD-A.

If storage might be an issue then I may wait for a new Ensemble which I assume will be coming soon and will have the same guts as the control 15 + TwinStore but without the interface. Has anyone yet had the chance to compare the iPad experience versus the full Sooloos interface. I don't tend to use spotify etc or have a vast collection so some of the benefits of the interface may be lost on me.

I am also going to continue to use the Sonus for the rest of the house so will need to find the best way of doing this. Under Sooloos I beleive that you can also keep a duplicate MP3 for ipods etc, don't know if the resolution of this can be controlled to a higher level lossy format. Given the Sonus will only be playing via zone players, the quality would probabaly be OK.

I am assuming that apart from the CD track the SACD's will still have to play via the Oppo.

regards

David

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