What this seem to say is that EAC will check the CD against itself, while dBp will check it against other CDs. I was hoping that with my Pioneer's Pure Read (if it has hard time reading, it will try again with the laser pointed at different angle I believe) will make up for the dBp not checking the CD against itself. Would you say this would work?EAC lets you pick the source and has AccurateRIP. dbPoweramp doesn't actually have a secure mode as the programmers are lazy and handwave it away claiming true block by block reading wears down drives. DB poweramp has no way to actually verify a rip other than comparing checksums to those already done in the accuraterip database and you don't know if they are accurate until someone rips it using program with a true secure mode such as EAC or XLD for Macs. Drives are cheap (20-40 bucks) so **** them. Use EAC and make sure your rips are good the first time.