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Do we need to spend thousands of dollars on recording gear or software?

When it comes right down to good sound, the mix and master, I personally believe I can get by on most basic DAW platform with good to excellent preamps and conversion.

That fact that I use and discuss excellent gear is because its available to me, and because its also a passion of interest.

Does CD ripping software/CD drive effect quality of the rip, for archival purposes

Hey all, I'm digitizing my CD collection in the next month or so. (edit technically it already is digital but, u get what I mean) This is so I can have acesso to it from anywhere, as CD players are more and more rare. Since this is archival, I want as close to an exact copy of the CD as possible, ripped inTo the computer. They have usb CD burners on Amazon for like $20.

Are software updates necessary ?

I've been using Windows 7 for 5 years now and have never updated a thing. The computer is never online. I haven't had a problem until a while ago when I had to restore from a backup because windows would not boot up. Ever since then things have been noticeably slower. Again, it hasn't been an issue until I got a couple of CPU heavy plugins (that I really like).

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