EAC is the best for ripping with lame encoder, i heard lame music ripped @ 128cbr high quality and it sounds better than most 160 and 192 ripped with other shitty programs EAC IS THE KING WITHOUT A DOUBT it might take longer but quality is more important even if i rip @ 128kbs, my local market rip everything with EAC & lame @ 128cbr and the quality is good enough to share.
and vbr sucks, when i burn an album for the car and its in vbr mode and its over 200kbs, the speakers in the car nearly blow up as the bitrate is way beyond speakers and i talking about 2x 300 watts speakers with a 4x 45 watts cd player.