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      This way, you're supposed to get a 'crispier' signal after processing
      due to the extra bits you've generated with upsampling. While this sounds
      reasonable in theory, I still can't hear a major difference, or perhaps
      any at all!




That's because it's not reasonable in theory... and I just re-read the Ozone mastering guide from cover to cover, and I can't find anywhere where it says anything like what you wrote above. Arny's told you directly how this is - you've simply got the same information spread over more bits.

And the highest bitrate currently available on a relatively common basis is 192k. Guess what? If you convert to this, your stuff will sound just the same... only it will take up four times as much room, and take four times longer to process, give or take. And then you'll go back to a 44.1k CD. In all of this, you will have enhanced your audio not one jot, and added two stages of sample rate conversion (not absolutely guaranteed to be 100% loss-free, because of very small rounding errors) quite unnecessarily.