But I still want to know where FhG fits into the picture?
> do you really want to know, or is this just a troll? :-)
>
> As far as I can tell, Blade produces output of the same quality
> as the ISO code. LAME is also based on the ISO code, but with
> many bugfixes (some quite serious) and some of our own improvements
> in the psychoacoustics/bit allocation.
>
> The bugfixes can only improve the quality at *any* bitrate.
> But as for our own improvements, most are based on listening tests
> done at 128kbs, so it is remotely possible they have made reduced
> the higher bitrate quality.
>
> Mark
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