use --alt-preset extreme and you wont have any problems. My empegs full of 'em

Amen.

Much of my collection was encoded when dibrom still had his name on them, so it was --dm-preset extreme. I actually did a serious listening test on my home stereo, and settled on extreme rather than the next one up (insane?) because I couldn't tell the difference. And only in certain pathological cases could I tell extreme from the next one down.