greynol

So much grief over something so trivial and inaudible, I cannot believe it!

Copying a CD not only involves reading, it involves writing as well. Whether you continue to use EAC the way you've done in the past or you've changed your offset per this new revelation (which IpseDixit has only stated here without giving any evidence to support the claim, BTW), your copies will not be any different except for the possibility that 30 non-silent samples at the beginning will be replaced by silence; but the absolute position of the audio on the copy will indeed remain the same!

EDIT: In the case of the Plextor drives that have a +30 sample read offset correction and -30 write samples offset according to the currently accepted standard, ripping and burning without a configured offset gives you back those beginning 30 samples that were previously ignored. The flip side is now the 30 samples at the end are ignored. These are the same samples some people were so proud to be able to get because the drive could overread from the lead-out. The irony to all that was it wasn't ever possible to burn those last 30 samples so they ended up being lost anyway. So if this new offset is correct, these Plextor drives would indeed be able to duplicate every calibrated sample and maintain the proper length of the last track without the need to apply any correction. An obvious consequence to this is that just about any burning software can be used except PlexTools!