Should i start using AAC? Can you notice a better quality? Options

[Bahamut2]

I have read everywhere that it is better than MP3, but will i be able to notice the difference?
I encode all my files to VBR -V0 and i don't know anything about AAC, what would be the equivalent encoding settings for AAC?

Can you people really notice that theyre is a reall difference in quality? I want to test it by myself (encoding always it max quality off course) but first i want to ask here.

[JunkieXL]

I used to use LAME v1 for all of the files I would put on my iPod. When they released the iTunes Plus preset a while back, I started to test that out and found that I couldn't tell the two apart and that I was getting better battery life on my iPod when using AAC files.

LAME v1 is in the 200 to 250 kbs VBR range IIRC and iTunes Plus is in the 256 kbs VBR. (That reminds me that they need to update the bitrate listing in iTunes when looking at a files info. It says 256 on all files no matter how simple or complex the track is.)

I haven't tested at lower settings as I have enough space on my iPod for the larger file sizes.
CK

This post has been edited by JunkieXL: Jan 10 2012, 20:24