do burnt CD copys sound as good as originals?

I have to say, in response to Grateful, that the differences I've heard among different blank media (including Mitsui gold) have been a whole heck of a lot smaller than the "100% improvement" variety...

Grateful, I have never had a copy that would not read, but I entirely agree that experimenting with cdrs and burners can drive you crazy. I would add also cd and cdr cleaners. I have quite experimenting.

I have Marantz Professional Cd Recorder/Player. The cd's I have made sound pretty darn great. As for computer burning, don't do it but have had some made via that way and they sound fine.

As it happens a Marantz Pro (model 510 I believe?) was the dual-well machine I referred to in my post of 1/7. Not that it made 'bad' copies by any means, just not as good (digital or analog) as the HHB unit I ultimately bought at the time (meaning less like the original). Differences do exist though sometimes subtle.

I was just reading info on the Memory Player by Nova Physics over at StereoTimes. It appears to me that this new player extracts (rips) music from the CD in a read-till-right fashion (sounds like EAC software) and stores it in flash memory to play it. What I find interesting is that it plays the music from flash memory rather than from the CD. I wonder if by using the solid state flash memory it may avoid further jitter or read/write error issues that are introduced by CDs or even hard drives. Just a thought...