Comment by everfrustrated

Changing the sample rate of audio only affects the frequency range. All audio signal is _perfectly_ represented in a digital form.

I am ashamed to admit this took me a long time to properly understand. For further reading I'd recommend:

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIQ9IXSUzuM