if you are burning an audio CD, then you want 16bit 44.1. If you are burning a data CD, then you want 24bit and whatever sample rate it was recorded at. I'm not too clear on you question, but audio CD players read at 16bit 44.1.

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For iTunes you want 44.1/16 .wav / .aiff (depending on PC or Mac)

and this is going to give me great qualityto burn to a audio cd?

its the best quality that a CD will play

allright cool. well where wood one need quality better than that?

One would need higher quality in DVD. I know DVD's are done in 24 bit word lengths, but I can't remember the bitrate. I think its 88.2kHz, but it might be 96kHz. Not really sure, though.

I think, the DVDs are 24bit / 48kHz.

burn speed affects the quality as well, just read different opinions on it in the mastering section here, but i have best results with the thumb role not over 4x write speed and decent blank cdr's like verbatim azo or tayo yuden. as wave (PC) or AIFF (MAC!!) 44.1khz 16 bit for CD, yupp

so u say aif for my mac? in itunes? would that do me well with some nice drs?