Audio Quality Specification

Bit Rates	Audio Quality Spec.	Audio Bandwidth	Stereo Level
80 - 96 Kbps	Transparent CD quality at 96 Kbps	18 - 20 KHz	> 80 dB
60 - 80 Kbps	CD quality stereo comparable with (or better than) 128 Kbps MP3	15 KHz	> 70 dB
40 - 60 Kbps	CD like audio quality	15KHz	> 60 dB
28 - 40 Kbps	FM Grade	15KHz	Parametric Stereo
16 - 28Kbps	High Quality Mono	12 - 15 KHz	-
3 - 16Kbps	< Toll for <8Kbps Toll for >8Kbps	4 - 12 KHz	-
Supported sampling rates : 32KHz / 44.1 KHz / 48 KHz

	Decoder Complexity :
	Typically on a Fixed point DSP processor the complexity is circa 60-80 MIPS.
	ROM ( in words ) : 25-35 K.
	RAM ( in words ) : 40-50 K ( including error concealment buffers ).

	Encoder Complexity :
	25 - 35 % of CPU usage on a 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium platform.