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>And yet 20+ years later no single Codec can produce MP3 128Kbps quality at 64Kbps I don't have any hard data on this, but I'm pretty sure that Opus produces b

>And yet 20+ years later no single Codec can produce MP3 128Kbps quality at 64Kbps I don't have any hard data on this, but I'm pretty sure that Opus produces better quality audio at 64 kbps than a 2000 MP3 encoder does at 128 kbps. A current version of LAME will probably be as much better than some old Fraunhofer encoder as Libopus is better than LAME.

lozf 6y ago
As always with lossy audio, different codecs have different "killer samples", but here are a couple of results from experienced testers that support the assertion that Opus at 64kbps is suitable as a modern replacement for 128kbps LAME MP3: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=117489 https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=117489 https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=119424 https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=119424