Ok, when you uncompress an mp3, do you go back to its original digital format? No loss? And then burning that wav to cd, you have yourself a digital copy of the original? So then if I went from cd ...
I'm going on a 1 year "trip", and I will be spending a lot of it listening to music. I don't have tons to spend (although I don't have an upper budget, it's just spending less is definitely better), ...