I must admit, this was almost exactly what I was going to say... AG (and also, surprisingly given the bandwidth limitations of the DLL they use for the compression, Audio Catalyst) have always done me good, and the great benefit of AG is the CDDB access and the ability to just "drop in" compliant DLLs for the compression dogwork.

It's definitely on par with the quality of the HSX-109 RIPs, which I am now tending to use as my comparison standard.