eac vs itunes ripping

If you use iTunes be sure you check "error correction when reading Audio CDs" I've got to believe that this is a similar, if perhaps less rigorous implementation of the same idea - works for me

Sounds like belt-and-suspenders to me. Apple Lossless is exactly that--lossless. I think John Atkinson at Stereophile confirmed that a while back (and I bet he used EAC to do it).

Have you compared the file size and the bit rate of the same track that was directly ripped by iTunes into Apple Lossless and the one that was ripped by EAC into WAV and than imported into iTunes and converted into Apple Lossless?

I found that the EAC ones almost always have a slightly higher bit rate and larger size. I don't know what caused the difference but the EAC ripped tracks sound smoother and fuller.

There is no EAC or EAC-equivalent for Mac. . . right?
thanks,
bob

Holderlin, EAC is a windows only program. The only way we Mac users can use EAC is use VirtualPC software. I have found that I can rip files in Itunes from discs that have flaws which cause audible dropouts, skips, etc. and the Itunes error correction creates files which play flawlessly.