Getting The Best Sonic Quality Mixes

I am trying to find out how to get the best mixes, sonically speaking, in Logic. Of course, I love doing quick high-speed off-line bounces for simple rough mixes... But curious if there is a better way to get the ultimate sonic quality in a mix.
The three basic ways I can think of all are:
- off-line bounce
- real-time bounce
- real-time recording back into two channels
* Question: I'm curious which one yields the highest sonic quality mix?
Also: Pro tools seems to only be able to do real-time bounces - is that because of a limitation of their software - or because they feel it will yield the highest quality Sonics?

When in doubt, do the Phase reversal test.
Bounce a mix in real time. Bounce a mix off line.
Re-import them onto 2 stereo tracks. Make sure they start at the same point. Put a gainer plug-in on one of the new tracks. Start playing them at the same time, and flip the phase of the gainer plug-in.
If you get complete silence after you've flipped the phase, the two signals are identical.... bit for bit.
I use off-line bouncing all the time, because I know it's accurate. However, there were issues in earlier versions of Logic, where plug-in automation, particularly automated bypasses, weren't executed accurately. I believe this has been fixed, but... for a final mix, I still tend to bounce in real-time, just so I can hear that everything is playing properly.
Bouncing out and back to 2 tracks in real time might not pass the phase test, because at that point the converters you're using play into the equation.
It's my understanding that it's the limitation of the (current) software, that prevents PT from having this feature. I know a lot of PT engineers who would really like to see it implemented.

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