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Originally posted by: neil
EAC with Lame 3.90.3 --alt-preset extreme
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Why do you choose 'preset extreme' over 'standard'? The increase in sound quality is marginal at best but the bitrate is ~25% (?) higher.
Most of the known problem cases for 'standard' are due to limitations of the mp3 format itself (and to a lesser degree the psychoacoustic model that LAME uses), you aren't likely to see much improvement even if you switched to 'insane'.
Besides, the main reason for the existence of 'extreme' is only to discourage people from trying to improve 'standard' by experimenting with additional command-line options (and screwing up in the process).