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"JustMe" wrote:

drive). It is certainly worth compressing at higher rates than the typically
accepted 128kb/s. 320 is essential IMO

How closely did you test this? Just curious.

With crappy PC speakers, 160kbps was noticeably better than 128; and
still a smidge under the CD. With real speakers, 192 was much less so,
but I found that VBR that *averaged* about 190 was indistinguishable
from the CD.

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