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320k VBR, highest quality can actualy go higher bitrate when called for.. so no.
Been using those settings for decades.
Can you provide a citation for that? According to my understanding, 320 kbps is the highest the codec can go, a 320k VBR file might drop to a lower bitrate when appropriate but as far as I'm aware it will never exceed 320k.
It's been probably like a decade (or longer. Shit) since my private music tracker days, but I know back then that V0 was the highest quality level for variable bitrate. Maybe that's what they meant?
Not sure if it ever went above 320 though in that case
It can go higher - LAME for example can encode up to 640kbps - but this is non-standard. Decoders are only required to support 320kbps maximum.
However, MP3 CBR uses a bit reservoir of max 4088 bits that can be donated from surrounding frames to encode particularly complex sounds.