I have a few questions about audio cds and the quality surrounding them:

1. When you burn an audio cd using a computer, does it lose sound quality when compared to the original?

2. When you burn an audio cd using a home deck, at high speeds, does it lose audio sound quality when compared to the original?

3. Is a Japan pressing of a cd better (quality wise) than a US pressing of the same cd? Especially if it is a first pressing from the master tapes.

I have read several things and they all say that no quality of the cd is lost when copying as long as your CD-R is of good quality and not cheap. But how can this be? How can it lose no quality whatsoever?

4. What is the best audio cd player on the market? I am talking about a home deck. Are there differences? How and why?