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Listening Tests / Re: Great killer sample, easy to ABX on most codecs
Last post by Kraeved -Lame 3995o vbr -q1 cannot be better than any 320cbr. Helix is old, good yes but still mp3.Just in case for less informed users among us: it's not -q1, but -Q1, a tweaked approach implemented by @halb27.
Actually, I agree with @maikmerten, who said: “Your LAME 3.995o encode did overall a better job, certainly better than LAME 3.100 for this sample. However, as one can see in the spectrogram, it somewhat avoided most of the sbf21 trouble by effectively lowpassing the high frequency band [using transition band 17960 Hz - 18494 Hz] and thus getting rid of the excessive energy there, which might be the best tradeoff in this case”. Helix without -HF2 used an even lower 16536 Hz limit and also sounds fine (with enough hiss, but without metallic fluctuations and ultrasonic bloat).
Input.
Output. lame3995o -Q1
Output. hmp3 -V150