DAE is not an easy process. the problems in DAE are explained in a very useful book by Ken Pohlman (Principles of Digital Audio). I have yet to see anybody describing their ripper as professionally as the author of EAC does. EAC implements a lot of techniques to get ripping right. Of course it is slow. IF and only IF you have a very good drive and a perfect CD to rip, you might judge EAC techniques redundant. But you can never be sure of your drive and of course of your CD. Therefore you should ALWAYS use EAC. Personally I always use EAC. It produces exact copies and it is slow (do you really care?) In very rare instances (really damaged CDs) EAC cannot recover the data. In that case I use the less precise CDex to rip with paranoia. It sometimes work but it just makes "a" copy, surely not an exact copy. Think of it, just having your ripper to display "copy OK" does not mean the copy is perfect, it just means there is no error after the amount of testing done. EAC makes more testing than others, so one could say the "copy OK" message from EAC is the best insurance you can get. On the other end "a" copy is better than no copy at all.
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