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Ripping Speed? Wave Files/Sound Quality

I just started dumping alot of my music into my 750 gig external hard drive and was wondering if a slower ripping speed will have an effect on sound quality? I have been using J River Media Jukebox 12. My burner i don't think can rip any slower than 4x or 8X. The strange thing is that i have my CD-Rom set to rip at the slowest setting and i also have JRiver MJ 12 to rip at 8x, but when i see my ripping progress in MJ12 it regularly shows the CD's ripping at 14X and 15x? But once in awhile a CD will slow down from the beginning and rip at between 4x and 8x(fluctuates during the ripping process). Am i getting less fidelity with these higher speed rips and is there a way to correct this? I listened to a cd that just by chance the machine and program decided to rip at between 4x and 8x and it sounds really good. Just trying to get the best fidelity while taking all this time to rip my collection into the hard drive. Would prefer not to have to do this twice!
Thanks for any help.
seekburk

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shazam
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For a long time, EAC was the only software that did truly accurate ripping because it was the only one that did data validation. Many (most?) others have caught up and are, for the most part, just as good from a technical standpoint. So long as the ripping software has a "secure" or "paranoid" mode that verifies the data, you can feel pretty good about it. Even better if it verifies the rip against a database like EAC (EZ-CDDA does this now too).

Extraction is actually one of the most solid aspects of PC Audio technology. And if you compress to a lossless format (like FLAC), that is equally if not more solid of a technology.
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