I used to use Astarte CD-Copy for years. It was by far the best accurate ripper of the time. But that's pretty much all it did and did that very well.

I've just become an Audion user and it is a very slick app. I can't even believe how I missed it back in the hey day. I was a SoundJam user though which is probably something to do with that. MacAMP wasn't too bad either.

But for ripping and burning, CD-Copy and Toast were the killer apps I used even all the way back to version 1.02e in 1992. Never did much reencoding back then though.