I didn't mean to say MusicMatch's Fraunhofer is inferior to other Fraunhofer implementations, but that Fraunhofer itself is inferior to lame at bit rates higher than 128k. However at bit rates lower than 128k Fraunhofer is better than lame.
Fraunhofer uses IS (Intensity Stereo) which gives it enhanced quality at low bit rates (as does MP3pro).
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