I'm not going to debate you when you consistently show your willingness to edit your previous responses to make it look like you weren't confusing the hell out of yourself with something you read on the internet.
Call me deaf if you want. I don't particularly hear much of a difference in any of those clips that couldn't be attributed to proximity or axis placement.
Could be overthinking.
Plugins up sample all day long, and Sonar wouldn't be the first pro-level DAW to allow multiple sampling rates in a project. So...yeah...it's totally possible.