And allofmp3.com is better than emusic.com.
I didn’t remember where did I got the mp3 of X&Y when I was in China. They sounds terrible actually. I don’t what kind of encoder they are made of; whatever it is, I bet it is the worst of all because at 192kps, it sounds worse like crap square.
So I decided to get X&Y from allofmp3.com with about 192kps vbr AAC. Well, this time, it sounds like music.
Emusic.com uses LAME 3.92 encoder. It is not the latest LAME, and I have no idea whether it is better than the lastest LAME. You have to know that the lastest LAME was released in 2003. People say LAME is the best mp3 encoder. Some comparison even say LAME at some bitrate is better than Apple AAC. I don’t know. But my speaker and headphone is just a little bit better than the low end products.