Re: cbr vs vbr

Thomas Orgis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.mp3.lame
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:57:58 -0500
schrieb "Maya R. Odinezenko" <[email protected]>: 

> Ultimately, it's all about you and what your ears interpret.
> 
> However, I do have to ask this:  If it's for listening pleasure at home, why not go FLAC?

Well, a terabyte disk will hold many more tracks with MP3;-) For a long
time now I am working with `lame --preset standard` and am happy with it.
This results in VBR around 200 kbit/s (more and less depending on the
source). While not made of gold, my ears are quite good and I also have
decent stereo at home. I do not listen with (expensive) headphones, though.
Perhaps if you are one of the folks complaining about jitter in
different (expensive) DACs, you might want to worry if lame --preset
standard is good enough ... I'm more worried about frikkin' AC hum and
electronic warfare from the computer, so getting optical connection to
_any_ external DAC instead of noisy analog signal with ground loop
helps more than insane quality settings for lame.


Alrighty then,

Thomas

PS: If you are really worried about quality, you can also think about
enabling dithered / 24 bit output in your decoder.

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