I've never been too confident in using VBR cuz I use MusicMatch and their software leaves you guessing too much....

I've got to agree with you on that. The interface for VBR recording in MusicMatch doesn't make sense. The 1%-100% slider isn't very intuitive. I think it's like that for a reason...so that the not-so-techno-savvy users can use it. But, I'd much rather have something that allowed me to set high and low kbps points.

My work would kill me, but I'll probably end up using LAME to do my encoding (in VBR). This test helped me decide. Warning...it's very complicated.