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When given the "Pepsi Challenge," most college students prefered the sound of 128 MP3 to Lossless. It's all about what you cut your teeth on. [0]

[0] Jonathan Sterne, "MP3: The Meaning of a Format", pg 166

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CBR 128 still gets that weird underwater warbling distortion on cymbals and other high-end sounds. You need to go at least 192 to make that inaudible.

With today's bandwidth and storage capacity, there's no reason to use anything worse than -V2.

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