Surprising result using DVD Audio Extractor to rip Stereo Tracks

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Natalie Merchant's Tigerlilly is one of the few discs which really don't have any hi-res stereo track at all and completely rely on the 5.1 fold-down. I think the DVD-Video/VIDEOS_TS part contains a Dolby 2.0 version, but that's all.

"Fear of a Blank Planet" and "Loaded" quite definitely contain hi-res stereo tracks.
 
Anyone have any observations or comments,?

I've always used Foobar2000 to rip DVD-A. One benefit is that it will explicitly tell you if the stereo version is a downmix.

I always extract the dedicated stereo mixes but never bother with the downmixes. I'm doing that out of total ignorance and prejudice, though: I've never actually closely analyzed the downmixes to see if they're any good.
 
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