How do CDrs made with a burner compare to regular CDs in terms of sound quality?
There is no reason why a home-burned CD should not have the same sound quality as a store bought CD… *if* the music files you are burning onto the CD have that quality. Most of the reasons for quality loss are in the files, not the CD burning process – when audio data is compressed to MP3 some quality is lost… how much, depends upon how much the data is compressed (the lower the bitrate the more compression, and the more quality loss), and what encoder software is used (different encoders perform differently). There are some problems you may encounter playing home-burned CDs in audio CD players, but generally they don’t pertain directly to sound quality. Sometimes you will find that an audio player will not recognise a home-burned CD at all – this is either because an error was made burning the CD (not burned properly as an audio CD or whatever), or because that particular player cannot read the CD media used. Never use CD-RW disks when making audio CDs. If you have a problem with
