One more thing;)
VBR. Minimal bitrate is only for safety purposes
Just to make you sure that adding -b80 is safe to use, a quote from Dibrom (author
of the --alt-presets), where he explains why he has defaulted -b128:
-b128 doesn't raise bitrates except on mono recordings which would fall
These tables (ISO Psychoacoustic Model) are built by taking values from
optimized encoders used in MPEG listening tests.
Perhaps the one in AAC demo code is optimized, but if the one of Layer II is
the same as the Layer III demo code, then it's quite bad.
In Lame it was first replaced by