Compressed. The bass on "Barbarism Begins at Home" pumps unnaturally. The high-hat during the guitar solo in "How Soon Is Now?" sounds like static.
Most standard rippers (iTunes, Windows Media Player) grab audio in a single pass. If your CD has a scratch or a smudge, the software guesses what the missing data is. EAC does not guess. It reads every sector of the CD multiple times. If it encounters an error, it slows down the drive to re-read the data until it matches a verified checksum. the smiths meat is murder 1985 eacflac repack
The keyword is a secret handshake. It tells the world you refuse to accept the loud, flat, convenient version of history. You want the grit. You want the error-corrected, log-verified, MD5-checked, beautifully scan-covered truth. You want The Smiths as they were: raw, difficult, and uncompromising. Compressed