I experience painfully slow rip speeds as well.
A little bit bored with not much else to (wanting to) do I took a random CD of mine, and ripped it with:
dBpoweramp
EAC
MusicBee
I tried to match their settings.
But while it is considered to be the touchstone of rippers, I (re-learned) that EAC is quite terrible in it's user interface.
So I didn't quite understand how to fine tune it to my preferences.
I ended up just going for 'fast ripping' in some 'wizzard'.
The results:
dBpoweramp : 2:49
EAC fast mode 8:12
MusicBee 2:40
So, I have a clear winner.
Both in user-friendliness and in speed, MusicBee won.
I realise this doesn't mean much, since every system and every CD will be different, and I only tested this with one CD, but I think it shows that any user that has very particular demands on ripping CD's should try a couple of rippers, test them with a couple of CD's, and then stick with the ripper that he likes most.
Unless somebody can point out specific flaws that MusicBee might have where it concerns CD ripping, it will not be productive to post that ripper x ripped cd x faster than MusicBee.