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In light of the recent study - http://www.airwindows.com/encoders/index.html - posted at slashdot, I've come to realize how little I know about this whole field. So, I'm making an appeal to the audio experts here. I want 'jukebox' quality, meaning ~0 artifacts while maintaining a good compression ratio, but not quite 'archiva...

Hello, I was wondering about the lowpass filter applied at the different quality levels. It seems that the 16kHz cut-off is still there at quality 3. I didn't really abx it, so maybe my mind plays tricks on me. :) Please can someone enlighten me what is used for -q0, -q1 and so on. (lame tells me whats used when encoding tracks) I know I shouldn't judge by bandwidth but I would like to

...about. RC3 is *so* transparent. Did not even think about ABXing, since I mostly could not find defects even when knowing I was listening to the encoded signal. Most evident differencies between original and encoded are to be found through synthetic test signals. A good one is EncoderHell from AirWindows.com . It was the only case where I could see (not hear) some pre-echos, and some differencies between "-q 3" and the upper quality levels. Another difficult signal is the sine wave (1 KHz), that is a little wobbly at "-q 0", but inaudibly so at "-q 3". The only dif...