Higher Quality Versions

It was my understanding that, on subscribing to iTunes Match, ripped CD copies, when matched to versions in the Store, woul dallow me to download the Store version (if it was a higher quality. I've previously copied CDs at moderate bitrates (some as low as 96kbps) to get enough onto early version iPods with limited memory (say, a 4GB iPod Nano). This was good enough at the time, using standard earphones. With more space available nowadays, and much higher quality earphones and headphones, I'd like to get the best from my music and copy at higher bitrates. I was hoping that iTunes Match would mean I wouldn't have to rerip the older copies.
However, even though albumns and tracks match, there doesn't seem to be any way to now download the iTunes versions - my iMac, MBA, iPhone and iPad all have the older versions that had been synched. Am I expecting too much or doing something wrong>
Thanks in anticipation...
Steve

First, switch to Song view and enable the iCloud Status column in iTunes by pulling down View > View Options. Select "iCloud Status" and close the small window.Any track that is "matched" you can delete the origional from the library (but not the cloud) and download the AAC@256 Kbps file from the iTS. Any track that is "uploaded" is just the same track that is already in your library.
Not every track in your iTunes library will match. That's just not going to happen. And tracks encoded at 96 Kbps and lower are not eligible for iTunes Match.
Tracks ripped at lower bit rates actually have a lower possiblity of matching than tracks ripped at higher bit rates because there is less data in the file for the service to sample and work with.

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