Hi Peter,
I would advise to reread the link I provided, May be new details will come forward.
In order to cause reading ripping errors from CDRs the [edit]distance[/edit] jitter of pits and lands should very very high.
So no matter how good or bad EAC does its job ripping. It would read the CDR all the same unless it is scratched too much.
I remeber ripping two CDs one was Original and other a licensed, the latter being very jittery. even my friends were able to hear it.
Guess what. they contained the same data, after ripping.
I even revived one CD for a friend. He complained that it sounded bad for him. I made a CDR copy, And he agreed that the sound did improve.
He is very suspisios about my theories however.
So the jitter in distance between pits and lands, causes laser, motor or whatever act with irregualarites. which result [edit](through PSU)[/edit] in time jitter of the 0 and 1 appearing on the circuit.
but spectrum of the distance jitter of pits and lands may not coinside with spectrum of time jitter of 1 and 0 (or the samples), but they certainly related: one is a function of another.
Andrey