this is a series of screencaps showing the characteristics of mp3 encoding at various settings applied to the same lossless wav file. CEP 2.x was used for SA/FA. Thanks to kotti for linking these a long time ago at STG.
original wav
SA
![](http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2631)
FA (shown for comparison alongside all FA links here)
256 cbr
SA
![](http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2633)
FA
192 cbr
SA
![](http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2632)
FA
128 cbr (the most common)
SA
![](http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2645)
FA
128-256 vbr
SA
![](http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2636)
FA
128-192 vbr
SA
![](http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2635)
FA
64-256 vbr
SA
![](http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=2634)
FA
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