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The iPod supports the Apple Lossless format, so if you're really concerned about quality you can just rip all your CDs to that, but it takes up a lot of disk space and you might not be able to fit them all on even the hugest iPod drive. Each CD takes 300-400 MB losslessly compressed, a quick calculation shows that would be around 200 GB for 600 CDs. It is certainly possible to tell the difference between uncompressed audio and any lossy compression, the question is just what kind of quality are you willing to tolerate and only you can answer that.
Other players have support for other lossless formats as well, such as FLAC, which is what I rip my CDs to, but the Zune has no lossless support at all as far as I know. When I wanted to put my FLAC-format CD rips on my iPod, I just did a mass conversion to 224kbps AAC and they work and sound just fine.
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