Ok, I played around with this tonight. I set Lame to be used as an external encoder, turned off normalization and used the --alt-preset standard. I then played the original CD and then the MP3 but I have to admit this is all through WinAmp because my players are still in England at the moment, and I thought the song sounded kind of distorted in the MP3 file. I was using Metallica's song One for my example. So what did I do wrong here?