I am using Musicmatch 7.0. The roll off above 16Khz can be adjusted from rolling off anywhere from 16Khz up to 22Khz. I have mine set to roll off over 20Khz while encoding at 256. I was definitely able to tell the difference when I listen to a song encoded at the default roll off compared to my custom roll off of 20Khz. This is not to say that I now have the "best set up for ripping and encoding" but it sounds good to me. I am curious, has anyone done a comparison of Musicmatch with LAME? I am not talking default set ups though. I am talkng about tweaking the settings on both using say bitrate, error correction and such to see how two of the same tracks sound head to head. I have no experience with LAME and I know many on this board have tried alot of different software.

Dave