Or Adaptec EZ CD Creator 4.0... As far as quality goes, true the higher the bitrate the better the sample, but anything over 128 is not much improvement IMHO... I am a network engineer and believe me I have done a ton of burning and the only thing that I know is that you want to play around with your burn speed... I have an 8X burner and had to drop the burn speed to 6X for audio because the playback was jittery in some players.. This also led to poor sound quality in the Bimmer (although not jittery). If you have an issue with sound quality and the song sounds good on your PC, I recommend burning at a slightly slower speed.