For hifi I use -abr 280 and -abr 144 for portable. Several weeks ago I found weird issues like new vbr vs old vbr, some issues like vbr worse quality when psymodel fails etc. I used gogo abr 160 k for a long time without problems too. I went back several versions with simialr results then I took V3.89 (pre alt preset era) built and still good results at -abr 144. I found out if 128k sounds a bit crappy then -abr 144 usually sounds good - like V5 and bitrate is similar. Shadowking's proposal of comparing regular music at 128 kbps would be very helpful (Lame most current 3.98 -V5 vs. My experience arises mainly from problem samples at >~ 190 kbps. Propably I'd prefer current Lame 3.98 now but I'm not sure. Most members beleive it cause due to theory it should be - and at 128 kbps I still think so too - but a real comparison may be very interesting). Don't care about CBR at very high bitrate (did care at low bitrate but meanwhile I'm not even sure whether VBR at 128 kbps is a big plus. I would have preferred using CBR 224 for safety reasons but as FHG uses plain stereo in this case I preferred CBR 192. Things have changed with 3.98, and Lame 3.98 -V2 in an overall sense (with the samples I tried) is pretty much on par with FhG now.īecause I'm pretty insensitive to pre-echo but find tonal problems pretty annoying I used FhG CBR 192 (the version that ships with dbpoweramp) for quite a while with my DAP and was very happy with the results.
This restriction probably doesn't effect the larger part of mp3 users. Seems like the FhG people don't have a lot of confidence in their joint-stereo implementation and prefer plain L/S stereo with very high bitrate. Joint stereo is available only up to 192 kbps.
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