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Take the LAME recommendations with a grain of salt.

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In Reply to: RE: Precisely.. posted by Dawnrazor on May 31, 2007 at 08:16:55

Good report! You can make it harder on yourself if you are willing to take up a little more space and change some settings.

Figuring that perceptual compression was likely to be quite individualistic, I messed about trying to find the best compromise for me that would still be ~100MB/CD. I ended up with 256K, CBR, Stereo, Bit res. on, as I recall. I found the sound, especially the percussion, much better not using Joint Stereo or VBR. Anything less than 256K hurt the highs.

While I can hear a slight difference between this encoding and the source, the essence of the recording and performance comes through nicely and gives me a good listening experience. Using the recommended settings or speeds had far worse outcomes.

Memory space is now so cheap that none us us are likely to bother with MP-3 in the future for CD resolution audio. However I'm very impressed with how good it can sound and the room it can save if you are willing to take the time to find the appropriate settings for your ears and music.

Rick

Follow Ups:

RE: LAME 320.... - alan m. kafton 02:42:43 06/01/07 (3)
- RE: LAME 320 sounds awfully good. - rick_m 08:56:40 06/01/07 (2)
  - FYI - to eliminate sw issues, the tracks were copied onto CDR... - danny kaey 10:02:11 06/01/07 (1)
    - Even then software issues lurk. - rick_m 10:45:22 06/01/07 (0)

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