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I don’t know much about that spectral analysis, but I found an audacity forum topic that explains how to check almost correctly a high quality encoding. They use another kind graph that indicates in a clearer way how to tell if the file is lossless, high quality or low quality. No offense, but the graph you posted doesn’t tell me anything and in that topic from Audacity they say that that kind of graph doesn’t tell much either.
Here’s the link (http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=28465)
Convert a file to wave and then with an audio editor remove the vocals, if you get highly audible distortion, it is very likely that it is a bad quality MP3 encode.
I regret to inform everyone that this IS a transcode from low quality MP3s. My guess is that EmteCoke had a homemade CD-R copy made with the 128kbps MP3 files that have been around for years. I was really hoping that a good encode of this CD could be finally available. This is far worse than ripping the soundtrack from a "professional" bootleg copy.
To EmteCoke, please don’t transcode to FLAC if you don’t own the original CD
While is not precisely an MP3 to FLAC, it is very likely that it is an MP3 to CD to FLAC encoding. Bootleggers like Archer, SonMay, Ever Anime and others usually made 1:1 copies, they did that before the Internet that we use now. Some bootlegs are the next best thing when you can’t get the original Japanese release because they’re 1:1 copies (as it was the case for EmteCoke’s encoding of KOF Neowave Arrange, although it is still wrong). The Double Dragon 3/Combatribes CD he encoded must be a CD-R.
It’s MP3 but if you read the posts above, you’ll find out it’s exactly the same.
I hope someday we will finally get a real lossless rip from the genuine article.