Mister Pig hit most of the key points. With EAC you can get an exact copy of a CD track stored on your computer. Done. Pure. End of story. Now, when you play it back, on a typical setup, the audio data gets handled by 6 or 7 layers of software, each of which might
degrade fidelity. Finally, the manipulated data gets dumped to the soundcard (in the computer) where it gets sent ...