this is a series of screencaps showing the characteristics of mp3 encoding at various settings applied to the same lossless wav file. CEP 2.x was used for SA/FA. Thanks to kotti for linking these a long time ago at STG.
original wav
SA

FA (shown for comparison alongside all FA links here)
256 cbr
SA

FA
192 cbr
SA

FA
128 cbr (the most common)
SA

FA
128-256 vbr
SA

FA
128-192 vbr
SA

FA
64-256 vbr
SA

FA
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