I think a better approach would be:

  • rip the test track to a WAV
  • encode the WAV file to MP3 with the selected encoder
  • decode the MP3 file to a WAV file using WinAmp (or something similar)
  • right both WAV files to an Audio CD


Now test both tracks on a decent CD player.

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