Official docs say that it's competitive at 128kbps, but these[0] listening test from Kamendo2 (who's very experienced in ABX listening tests of lossy codecs) su

Official docs say that it's competitive at 128kbps, but these[0] listening test from Kamendo2 (who's very experienced in ABX listening tests of lossy codecs) suggest fdk-aac still has the edge, as well as handling VBR and the HE-AAC / HE-AACv2 profiles properly. [0]: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,111085.0.html https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,111085.0.html