In Secure Mode, EAC would read every single audio sector (a tiny 1/75th of a second chunk of music) a minimum of two times. If the data from read #1 and read #2 matched perfectly, it moved on. If they didn't, it would read the sector a third, fourth, or even eightieth time until it got two identical reads in a row.
If you have a pristine, brand-new CD, almost any ripper will work fine. However, EAC shines because of the following features: exact audio copy
In the late 1990s, the digital music world was a messy place. The dominant format was the Compact Disc, a plastic disc encoded with 16-bit, 44.1 kHz stereo audio. To get that music onto a computer, you used a CD-ROM drive to "rip" the tracks. But there was a fundamental, frustrating problem. In Secure Mode, EAC would read every single