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CDs in their native, original format are uncompressed. The music is sampled, and then may be compressed or altered before being recorded to the CD,
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No doubt.
What Nostatic and I were referring to was the latter
part of in the 2nd sentence. If we have 24 tracks in
Pro Tools that gets mastered to CD...the
good possibility for sample rate conversion as well
as bit rate conversion (most artists are not recording
natively at 16 / 44.1 all the way through the chain these
days)...
The point being that compression and conversion is happening
at some point in the audio chain (albeit done with much
better equipment and algorithms than the typical mp3 creation)
but it is happening, and the Golden Ears crowd can hear it.
Thankfully Im not one of them.
However, if we really want to split hairs about sound...then
we have to start talking A/D converters and D/A converters...
and further back from that Digital Clock and how it affects
the sampling of the Analog signal and the resulting sonic
qualities.
These guys will master to CD for $99 a song, 4 song min:
http://www.sonymusicsim.com/