I've begun the task of re-ripping my cd's after upgrading my speakers in-car to MB Quarts and noticing the HORRIBLE artifacts that XING left in my rips previously (at the next to highest VBR setting). I can definitely second Borislav's recommendations. I've been using the following settings for LAME:

-V 1 -b 128 -m j -h -q 1

and have been amazed at the difference.

Xing's encoder is MUCH faster than LAME and their ripper is MUCH faster than EAC, but the extra time spent has been worth it so far. Rip a song with a few of the settings and then compare to the CD... 'tis what i did! =]


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