Pixel perfect images view at PDF - possible?

I created a few jpg files. I'd like to have them as 1 PDF. The idea is to have pixel perfect view at any PC. The problem is that the view of jpg images at PDF always have kind of zoom, it's never crisp. Not even when viewed at 100%. On my PC it look pretty sharp at 137%...
Is it possible to solve this?
p.s. Jpg images are 150dpi. My monitor is 96ppi (not sure about that).

I think the answer is no. There are too many possibilities. I did create a PDF of a picture (I may repeat with text as you did) and then saved the picture back to a JPeg. I have then displayed the before (right) and after (left) at 100% along with the PDF version at 135% (about same size) in the figure below (my picture may not be perfect by any means) as clipped from the screen. I will try to repeat with text.
I repeated the same process with text (from a PDF that I saved as a jpeg and imported to Acrobat). The JPeg zoom this time is 66.7% and the images are 100% in the viewer.
The reason I have the before and after is to show that the basic JPeg has not changed (except for some white space) and it is basically a viewing issue. In the first set of photos, it would appear that the after JPeg was a bit lighter in appearance. For what it is worth, the 100% PDF view of the 2nd example is shown below:
Just to clarify, these were all done on AA9 with Win7 that is the installation on this machine. I do not expect much change on my AA XI installation.

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