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), ...

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 ...