30 Years of Perfect Sound?

No audio product has ever succeeded because it was better, only because it was cheaper, smaller, or easier to use.
Digital was ok the way it is. A Mass Market Medium. Some tried with a lot of money to push it in the "Perfect Sound" Category. This game didn't stop, so stay tuned :-)

" burn a copy of the manufactured cd onto a good quality cd-r and it improves "
If your CD burner is doing it's job the sound will be identical.

Reading over the rest of this man's site as pertains to audio I find a lot of contradictions and misinformation. I would take his opinions with a grain of salt.

No audio product has ever succeeded because it was better, only because it was cheaper, smaller, or easier to use.

Syntax,

What you said is so true, I believe it has been said that Beta was better than VHS but we all know that VHS had won out because it could record more time.

Then there was Laserdisc, I personal think that Laserdisc was personally better than DVD, especially the early DVDs (not Blu-ray).

Also don't forget marketing, if you spend enough money on marketing you can brainwash people into buying an inferior product thinking its the best product. For example, Bose has great marketing.

'Listening and reporting is only an opinion. Anyone can do that. Doing the technical research to understand why one might hear what they hear is a lot harder.'

Yes it is a lot harder - much much harder. And even if you are an engineer with many many years experience you will quite possibly get it wrong - check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CkyrDIGzOE

Best to simply listen to it and make up your own mind since even the experts can get it wrong - or to be more exact have to constantly revise what they thought previously.

There is simply no shortcut to actually hearing gear.

Thanks
Bill