(This is why Soundkeeper offers folks a choice of pressed CDs or CD-Rs slow-burned one at a time from the original hard disk master. I've gotten to make this comparison a number of times and it has always supported my contention that something about a burned CD is more faithful to the source than a pressed CD. By better I mean sounding more like the master the original was made from. In fact, the CD-R always seems to sound better than the original, with cleaner fine detail and better focus. When I have made copies of disks I have not experienced a CD-R sounding veiled compared to the original. Perhaps the burner in your G4 has a problem - maybe as simple as a dirty lens?
Its Matsushita burner will not go slower than 4x but with good blanks (I use only Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs and DVD-Rs) it creates great results. Click to expand.I often use my PowerBook G4 to burn disks.