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As I write this, I’m ripping a CD at about 10x, and the SuperDrive in my Mac mini is hardly making any noise. I’ve been ripping a box set of Schubert piano sonatas, so all the CDs are similar ...

rather-ripping noise duo with experimental guitarist Bill Nace. For fans of SY’s transgressive Eighties downtown bluster, Body/Head‘s 2013 debut Coming Apart was a welcome wade back into the ...

Keep in mind that at 40x the CD is spinning at 8,000+ revs per minute. Any weight imbalance, even just the weight of the ink on a commercial CD, will cause a slight imbalance and noise.