ultimate CD-R burner system?


Hello what would the ultimate CD-R burner system consist of? Also must you send the signal through the sound card when burning a disk? Any way around it?
mejames
Reading up on an earlier post GO WITH THE SLOWEST SPEED AVAILABLE . Copying a cd at 40X is just a bad proposition sonically, with all the audible pops and clicks. Try to stay at 8X and under if you can. The sound quality is amazing compared to fast speeds...
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hey elizabeth i did a searc on sonic foundry and so many products poped up for a non musician just burning cds/making mp3's whaterver what do you recommend ?? which did you get ??thanks for the idea..:)