Burnin CDs? Sound loss/degration question

It could be in the burning process and not in the data transfer. Cds are stamped with pits and cdrs are made by heating up some sort of dye. Cdr does not use the same dye as cdrw. Some of the older cd players that could not play cdrs could play cdrws and vice versa. The lasers may not read the dye as easly as they do the pits. Could this cause a loss of sound quality maybe? I don't know but something does, thats for sure. I wonder if you played a wave file off your hard drive bypassing your pc sound card to your stereo system it would sound any better than than the same file burned onto a cdr and played over the same system in an a/b test?

You can make them sound better by burning at 1X and using the Mitsui Gold CD-R. To make the copies sound really good you need a $1000+ CD Recorder. You will never get good CDs from burning on your computer.

Where can I buy Mitsui CD-R's? Website or stores in NYC or North Jersey? Thanks!

Buckingham has it right except for the $1000 CD Recording. The new Yamaha recordings make great CDs. I just bought one. It claims it can burn at some ridiculous rate, but I use it at 1x for audio and 8x for data. The audio sounds fantastic. As to where to get Mitsui CD-Rs:
http://www.american-digital.com/prodsite/default.asp