Hmm... I should have been more clear when I posted this...

The tutorial was writen as a bare bones setup guide. Basically, once you have convinced someone they should encode at "--alt-preset standard" with EAC, you point them to this setup guide. I've been in his chat room and this is the most common question, so this guide really saves him time. His chat room is "#myden" on DALnet btw.. He has a more detailed one that really explains all of the features here .

Without trying to speak for him, Chris subscribes to "--alt-preset standard" as the best setting. The files average just a little bigger than 192k files. They will max out at 320kps and wont go lower than 128kps for any given song. I think that they are better than Fraunhoffer encoded at 100% (MusicMatch)? Even the MusicMatch employees use EAC and LAME! (svferris can attest to this).

The --alt-preset standard over-rides any other settings. With LAME, you can go in and manually tweak those settings but I think the people that setup the presets have better ears than me anyway... There is also a "--alt-preset insane" or something, but you might as well encode at 320 CBR.