Take a look at the FAQ (top right of your screen).  Its got lots of info:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....7516#entry74071

By exact, I mean 100% identical to the original cd. I did some research and lossless rip format of flac, wav or wv and program like EAC are only near perfect (like 97-99.9% accuracy) of the cd that I need to clone.

to describe the source I need to copy more specific, there is only one track on the cd. There will be many layers of sound here, some are clear and some are very subtle. The analysis needs all these layers to remain accurate because I need to come out with a formula from the analysis of these layers.

So the thing here is to copy all these layers 100% as they are. I am not sure here, is flac or cue/bin the way to go here?

I'm curious though, can a CD record frequencies like above 100kHz

A continuous signal (analog signal) can be properly sampled, only if it does not contain frequency components above one-half of the sampling rate. This means that with cd-audio's 44.1kHz sampling rate, the maximum frequency that can be represented properly is 22.05kHz.

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A continuous signal (analog signal) can be properly sampled, only if it does not contain frequency components above one-half of the sampling rate. This means that with cd-audio's 44.1kHz sampling rate, the maximum frequency that can be represented properly is 22.05kHz.

That means about 77.95kHz of bat sounds are not being reproduced.

Properly ripped and losslessly encoded files preserve the source audio precisely.

So just to confirm with you guys, I should use flac or wav, rip software is exact audio copy right? Or should I go get a CD image cloner? CD image cloners like CDClone or Cdrdao often advertise themselves to be able to create 1:1 copy of audio track which is again, confusing me...

Used drive  : PIONEER DVD-RW  DVR-K16M   Adapter: 0  ID: 0

Read mode               : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache      : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Combined read/write offset correction       : 0
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks   : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations       : No
Used interface                              : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling                                : Not detected, thus appended to previous track

Used output format              : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate                : 768 kBit/s
Quality                         : High
Add ID3 tag                     : No
Command line compressor         : E:\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y"
 -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %j--picture="%i"%j %s -o %d


TOC of the extracted CD

     Track |   Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector 
    ---------------------------------------------------------
        1  |  0:00.00 | 23:58.51 |         0    |   107900   


Track  1

     Filename D:\Track01.wav

     Peak level 61.6 %
     Extraction speed 1.5 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 5E887294
     Copy OK

No errors occurred

End of status report

Used drive  : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GU10N   Adapter: 0  ID: 1

Read mode               : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache      : No
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction                      : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out          : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks   : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations       : No
Used interface                              : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling                                : Not detected, thus appended to previous track

Used output format              : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate                : 768 kBit/s
Quality                         : High
Add ID3 tag                     : No
Command line compressor         : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y"
 -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=%e" %j--picture="%i"%j %s -o %d


TOC of the extracted CD

     Track |   Start  |  Length  | Start sector | End sector 
    ---------------------------------------------------------
        1  |  0:00.00 | 23:58.51 |         0    |   107900   


Track  1

     Filename D:\Final Fantasy\Track01.wav

     Peak level 61.6 %
     Extraction speed 5.2 X
     Track quality 100.0 %
     Copy CRC 5E887294
     Track not present in AccurateRip database
     Copy OK