Not being a big fan of MP3s and the likes, I've heard how FLAC is the way to go. I'm still trying to figure out if the file size is smaller, how can it be Lossless?

Either way, my question is how should I burn the FLAC files back to a CDR for best sound quality? I went to use NERO and it threw an error. I googled some info to find out there was a plugin download for NERO which I installed. The files burned to CDR without error after that.

So, I listen in the car and it sounds OK but nothing superb. I threw the disk in my main system when I got home and was quite disappointed. Firstly, I had to turn the volume knob up much further than any other disk duped or original. The overall sound quality just frankly sucked. I have a 20 year old cassette recording I made of the original album that sounds way better than what I just described.

So my questions are;
What should I use to burn FLAC files back to a CDR for best sound quality?
Should I not really expect it to have good quality?

As a note, the test files were ripped with EAC to FLAC and came with the EAC report from the rip. I'm not sure if that info is relevant to my questions.

Thanks anyone.