Just use EAC, it will rip the music better than anything else anyway, and once you get it set up, it isn't drag and drop simple, but it's pretty easy to use.
Ok, I'm using WMP7.1 to rip a couple of cds and I'm using its "analog ripper" feature - basically, it plays the cd and records at 1x speed. Now, I could have sworn that WMP let me turn off compression ...