A mainstay of Windows and Mac machines for many audio enthusiast wannabes, VLC media player is also available for most popular systems in the Linux userland and once installed, should provide the facility to rip an audio CD by following these instructions.
Since you seem to be more into audio, rather than use its built-in equalizer to improve its sound via software and should you lack equivalent audio hardware, if you don't mind a bit of fuss initially then I have a guide about installing the LADSPA PulseAudio equalizer using apt and its related tools.
You'd imagine that the above instructions are wholly unnecessary because there's a "Later version" of pulseaudio-equalizer available but it's unanimously been canned by most of the Ubuntu userbase for its ineffectiveness at being a simple, easy and fuss-free solution. And don't get me started about pulseeffects you need a God-damn degree in audio engineering to use that, and on some systems, mine included it tends to crash out for indiscernible reasons.