I have sound juicer installed and I want to rip to vorbis.ogg. Is gstreamer the best encoder for vorbis or is there a better encoding engine I should use.

The default gstreamer profile is

audio/x-raw-float,rate=44100,channels=2 ! vorbisenc name=enc quality=0.5 ! oggmux

I am going to raise the quality to 0.7 but thats all nothing if gstreamer isn't the best encoder.

Any suggestions for high quality ripping?

Edit: a good answer to this will also be the top search result in google for "best vorbis encoding engine".

Double Edit: It appears oggenc itself is the best encoder which rules out using sound juicer to rip cd's as it uses gstreamer. I have installed oggenc and am testing the command ripper abcde. Found a good configuration for it here oggenc config for abcde