[Spirit]

This may be the lamest question ever, but here goes:
At the Montreal Sound and Vision that I just attended, I had the opportunity to have a discussion with a young man who tried to esplain to me that he loads every CD he has onto his hard drive and then burns a new CD.  He told me that the copied CD always sounds better then the original. 
Is this possible.  Logic and common sense dictate otherwise, but then again, anything relating to Computers lacks sense to me.
Can someone chime in here with some comments please.

[Mag]

I found this to be true. I rip to a good quality cd-r's. A lot of store bought music cd's are massed produced cheap quality. I can think of one cd in particular where it was quite obvious my burned cd sounded way better. The original had skips in some tracks, so I copied it to a cd-r.( I learned years ago that computer cd-roms can read discs that others players can't and corrects the errors) With this particular cd, not only were the skips gone but there was also way more detail in the music than from the original. But I used a music cd-r and not a data cd-r.
I don't think the write speed is as critical as I once thought. I use to burn at 2x but with my standalone burner and my new computer cd-roms I use much faster speeds and haven't noticed any gliches in the playback.
I make copies of all my original cd's and store them away.
However some of the more recent cd's have some kind of copy protection on them and this somehow degrades the burn sound quality. And they almost always leave glitches on the last track. Or you can't copy them at all. But there is more than one way to skin a cat. 

[Spirit]

I found this to be true. I rip to a good quality cd-r's. A lot of store bought music cd's are massed produced cheap quality. I can think of one cd in particular where it was quite obvious my burned cd sounded way better. The original had skips in some tracks, so I copied it to a cd-r.( I learned years ago that computer cd-roms can read discs that others players can't and corrects the errors) With this particular cd, not only were the skips gone but there was also way more detail in the music than from the original. But I used a music cd-r and not a data cd-r.
I don't think the write speed is as critical as I once thought. I use to burn at 2x but with my standalone burner and my new computer cd-roms I use much faster speeds and haven't noticed any gliches in the playback.
I make copies of all my original cd's and store them away.
However some of the more recent cd's have some kind of copy protection on them and this somehow degrades the burn sound quality. And they almost always leave glitches on the last track. Or you can't copy them at all. But there is more than one way to skin a cat. 

Interesting!
Being really new to this, if you have the time could you give me a brief tutorial as to how to do this.