" - cd's recorded on cdrw media from any source"
Yes, CDRW is much worse than CDR in that respect.

And anonymous GUEST - of course there's some dreadful amateurish stuff put out on CDR, but that's no proof that everything on CDR is badly done. Anyway, Caveat emptor...

There's a lot of crapola on pressed CDs too, if that's not depressingly obvious.

Most performers in this forum who sell CDs do so on the back of gigs. The buyers already know what kind of music they are going to hear. Having said that I do remember being disappointed once with a CD bought from a band at a gig - it was a pressed CD, and it wasn't like the live performance because it was a studio session with lots of professional session musicians - technically perfect but unrecognisable as the cheerful fun-filled live act that I'd heard.

Your mileage may vary.

Anahata