CD vs FLAC stored on flash drive vs streaming

georgehifi

The first retail stamped cd will have some error correcting, this substitutes the unreadable pit for what came before it be it 0 or 1, so it has a 50% of getting it right.

Not likely. The compact disk system has redundancies built into it. A single unreadable pit doesn't cause an error.

Error in CD reading  can be corrected by going multiple times over the same sector.  CDP cannot do that working in real time (reading only once).  That way CD-R copy can be better than original CD.  I was able to repair couple of unreadable CD by copying them to CD-R.  It took long time (couple of hours for one CD) but got recovered working copies.

I was able to repair couple of unreadable CD by copying them to CD-R. It took long time (couple of hours for one CD) but got recovered working copies.

The opposite with me with original retail ones, the more they were burnt the worse the sound got.
Proved it many times when hearing a loved CD at a friends, borrowing, it to burn <4x, then later getting the retail one used same version and it sounds better 

But burnt ones that wouldn’t even read TOC were readable using another brand blanks.
The more they were burnt the worse the got, then there’s the burnt ones that are unplayable unless certain blanks were used, but perfectly fine with every retail cd.

It depends how you burn them.  Often people burn CD-Rs at 2x or 4x nor realizing, that laser is too strong at this these speeds.  I might be wrong, but I believe that at the beginning it was just physical burn of metalic layer.  Now, it is only high sensitivity photosensitive dye.  Every CD-R has training track for laser power adjustment, but it has limitations.  Photo dye, that can be written at 52x might be overburned at 2x or 4x, in spite of laser adjustments.   

It all depends on personal experience - I've used Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs with phthalocyanine dye with good results, but he best for me is memory storage - easy to use, good sound quality (with proper connection) and ability to create back-up copy (or multiple copies).

I've used Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs

They were all I ever used, but you have to watch out, because many being sold are fakes, then found other ones just as good.

Now I don't bother with copying just get the original retail uncompressed versions if any, and used if need be, as to me they are better.