Yeah - I use Lame 3.92, q2 VBR because that's what the program's author recommends...sounds great to me!

On the subject of big hard drives...I would rather have several "medium-sized" (80-100 GB) drives, than one 200 GB drive. Cheaper per Gigabyte, and results in more complete backups.

(Is anyone out there actually filling a 100GB drive with MP3's? I can fit all that I would ever play in 35GB!)