I know you do not want to use a format that compresses the music files and causes sound quality loss like MP3.
FWIW... there is lossy (Ex: mp3) and lossless (Ex: FLAC, AAC) compression...
Some have claimed they have gone from WAV -> FLAC -> WAV and the resulting WAV file is different, so then starts a debate of is FLAC really lossless.
<edit>I haven't tried this... my hearing / system is not at a point where any delta would be noticeable - ie... too much effort
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Personally... when I rip, I rip to two separate directory trees... One is FLAC, the other VBR MP3s using EAC. The former I use for listening off our main system, the latter used for putting files on SD cards to listen in the car, or phones, ipads, pulling into iTunes etc.
Probably an easier, quicker way to do it, but honestly my biggest time suck is iTunes never seems to pick up the metadata correctly even if set up right in EAC, and I end up having to go back and correcting a bunch of stuff in iTunes.
I'm probably doing something wrong... or iTunes blows... or both.
-DD