In Vista you can bypass the internal sampler, but I don't know how easy/obvious this is. There are a couple of people here who probably know.

Honestly, I don't think you can hear the difference. In blind testing, even High bit rate MP3s were indistinguishable from full bit rate recordings.

Fred

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