I did some testing with EAC and Lame software last night and I can really hear a difference between my Xing rips and the ones with EAC/Lame. The CBR 256 and VBR 256 sounded both very good . But I still have some questions. Should I use Razor Lame or Lame tool ( one seems more easy in use then the other) and how do I use EAC together with Lame ? Now I first make WAV's with EAC and than MP3's with Lame . I then end up with both WAV and MP3 files on my HD. Isn't it possible that lame turns the EAC WAV's into MP3's , so I will only end up with the right files. It's a lot of fun experimenting and tweaking this software. I feel that I'm getting much better quality MP3's allready. But both these programs are very slow, quality doesn't come cheap ! Thanks to all who wrote a reaction to my posted messages , I learn a lot this way !