getting the most out of EAC while ripping CD's to WAV

[hcsunshine90]

so I downloaded EAC, put in the test CD, and during the initial setup chose accurate results over speed. I proceeded to rip a couple CD's and most tracks came out w/ the "track quality" being 100%, the worst being 98.8% which I think is pretty good. also, it always said no errors occurred, all tracks accurately ripped and copy OK. though I just took a gander at the options and under "EAC options>extraction"...  for "extraction and compression priority" it was set to "normal" instead of "high". I'm wondering if I switch it to "high" if I will get more accurate results. under error recovery quality it was set to "medium" instead of "high". I'm wondering if I set it to "high" if I will get more accurate results. any help appreciated. thanks, john edit: I just changed both those settings to "high" and the only difference is that "peak level" is now 100% whereas before it was much less than 100%. not sure if "peak level" matters or what it means. "track quality" is still at 100%... another edit: just learned "peak level" has something to do w/ the maximum volume within a song. something tells me I should re-rip the CD's I have already done and do the rest w/ these settings...

[garbulky]

no don't friend. it won't change

[dudeisms7]

What does the Track Quality really mean? A few times I get 99.7% or 97.5%. But there are no suspicious position reported.
When you get 99.7% and so on, that means that a bad sector was found, but the secure mode has corrected it – from 16 times of grabbing the sector, there were 8 or more identical results. So it only indicates read problems. It is the ratio between the number of minimum reads needed to perform the extraction and the number of reads that were actually performed. 100% will only occur when the CD was extracted without any rereads on errors. ONLY when there are suspicious positions reported, there are really uncorrectable read errors in the resulting audio file.
I often get files with a Peak Level below 90%. What is this Peak Level for?
The Peak Level of a song the maximum volume within the song. So 100% will have the maximum volume possible in a file. A file with Peak Level 50% will have only at its loudest point half of the maximum possible volume. So this is no quality information, it is useful for creating a CD mixed of tracks from different CDs and for normalizing.