For some strange reason, every time I rip an audio CD with dBpoweramp CD Ripper the resulting audio tracks become stuttering audio. I am trying to rip to FLAC and the compression level is set to 6. When I play the resulting FLAC file with foobar2000 or jrmc, I get a 16-bit/44.1Khz track with a bitrate of 156 kbps. Obviously a losslessly compressed CD track should have a much higher bitrate.

When I try ripping a CD, the completed tracks show the rip status as X AR (9) and Secure. AR, I assume means AccurateRip, and it is red. Does this mean the AccurateRip result is good or bad? These rips take forever. It took about 53 minutes for just the first 2 tracks of a CD. This CD is an unscratched, practically brand new disc. This problem occurs with any CD.

Here are my settings:
Ripping Method = Secure
Pass 1 = AccurateRip Verified
Pass 2 (this is grayed out with yellow highlight showing limit drive speed = maximum)
Ultra Secure = enable ultra secure ripping is checked; vary drive speed each pass is not
Individual Bad Frames = maximum re-reads=34; set drive speed=maximum
Drive Read Cache=1024KB
Clear REad Cahch with FUA is checked
C2 Error Pointer for Error Detection is checked
8KB Transfers is not checked
Secure Rip Abort = all options are set to 'no abort'
Interpolate Unrecoverable Frames is not checked
Mark Track as Error if Insecure is not checked
Secure Extraction Log - Report contents=Simple; write to file is not checked; add to information log is checked
AccurateRip - Query Ripping Results with AccurateRip is checked
Meta Data - I believe these are just the defaults, because I haven't changed anything here.
CD ROM
Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST (this is an LG Blu-ray burner)
CD Drive: BD-RE WH10LS30
Firmware: 1.00
Serial: just shows a black dot
Maximum Speed: 7056 KB/sec (x40)
Current Speed: 1056 KB/sec (x40)
Spin-down After: 2 minutes
Buffer size: 4 MB
Accurate Stream: yes
C2 Error Pointers: yes
Reads ISRC: yes
Reads UPC: yes

eject after rip is not checked
ripping speed is maximum
spin-up time is none
spin-down after is default
simple offset is +667
read into lead-in or lead-out is not checked
communication is SCSI pass through (SPT)
prevent auto-run on all CD drives is not checked
prevent detection of hidden first track is not checked

I am running dBpoweramp on a relatively new PC. It has an Intel Core i3 540 CPU, 4GB RAM, and is running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I recently upgraded to SP1, but I first noticed this problem before installing SP1. I have used dBpoweramp successfully on a different PC, but all settings seem to be the same. The only difference is slightly different hardware (an Intel Core2Duo) and DVD burners instead of a BD-RE drive.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Thanks for your help.