There's nothing bad about 128kb encoding. I did a test with three versions of the same track; one at original WAV, one at 128k and one at 256k, using LAME. I copied each 3x (making 9 tracks) and put them randomly on a CD. Nobody that I gave it to could tell which tracks were the originals.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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There's nothing bad about 128kb encoding. I did a test with three versions of the same track; one at original WAV, one at 128k and one at 256k, using LAME. I copied each 3x (making 9 tracks) and put them randomly on a CD. Nobody that I gave it to could tell which tracks were the originals.