I think I must be missing something here. You propose to take a signal that is on a CD, so it is CD quality, 44.1/16 bit, rip it, and immediately render it to the same quality signal? This is not "down", it's the same. I would not expect to hear any difference. If there were any difference, it would only be a test of the CD ripping and CD burning algorithms.


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