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Arny Krueger
 
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Default CDDA Rip Quality

Pat wrote:

Can an Audio CD be read back, exactly as it was written?


Yes, bit perfect.

I have seen some discussion that its not possible, due to the way a
commercial CD-A is made.


I general, a bit-perfect copy of a CDA track can be written to a hard drive.
The resulting .wav file can be burned onto a new CD, and the original track
and the copy track can be identical down to the last bit.

I've done this many times. I often use this test as a means to judge the
quality of CD ROM drives and software for copying audio tracks to hard
drives.