dBpoweramp's CD Ripper was put up against the most popular CD Rippers, the results which speak for themselves are just startling:

AudioGrabber green line: time taken to flush data to file

Not convinced? try the test yourself, you will be amazed with the results dBpoweramp is able to rip at Burst speeds and still give accuraterip verified results.

Test Specifics

Hardware   AOpen 562E 52x CDROM
Audio CD Disc   Club Mix Ibiza 2000 - Disc 1: time take to completely rip CD
Software   Latest version of each program was used, ripping straight to Wave file (44.1KHz 16bit stereo PCM), using fastest ripping options found.

Program Specifics

dBpoweramp Music Converter   (R12) - Secure mode (CD was in AccurateRip)
CD-EX    (1.4b4) - Standard Ripping Method was selected,
AudioGrabber   (1.81) - Rip as much as possible to RAM selected (208MB),
FreeRip Mp3    (1.13) - No speed tweaking options found,
Easy CD-DA Extractor   (4.6.1) - On-the-fly copy mode selected,
Exact Audio Copy   (.9b) - Low error recovery and burst mode.