How to rip 20-bit CD(and retain all 20bits) Options

[ben]

I have a 20-bit Telarc CD, and would like to extract it onto my computer. However, I'm not really sure how to go about this without having the WAV truncated to 16-bit. I only have a 16bit soundcard right now, so it's going to get chopped off anyway, but I just want the original, unaltered music in the file.

Any ideas?

[Yash]

First of all, i'd really like to apologize for bringing up this old topic, and i'm really a newbie here. Thousand apologies, cos i stumbled upon this thread while browsing thru the FAQ.

I have a few HDCDs, but i don't have a hardware HDCD player, i actualyl found out that they were HDCD when i played them in WMP9.

Later, i decided to back them up, and i just used Nero to CDCopy (back when i knew nothing). As far as i know, Nero would rip (DAE?) it to temp waves and burn them back to the blank CDR.

I played the CDR with WMP9, and it still had the HDCD logo. Does this mean that the copy is still a HDCD?

Could someone help me out with understanding what happened? Honestly, i can't hear a difference with my sound system (TBSC+Logitech Xtrusio), but i'd really like to learn for academic reasons. Thanks.