CD-R's vs. CD-RW's


Does anyone have experience with sound quality loss from multiple overwrites onto CD-RW's? Will be downloading music files from the web onto CD-RW's, then play them on a good CD player to make recordings on a DAT machine. Would then use same CD-RW to start process all over again. Do not want to build a collection of CD's.
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I am using the soundcard that came with my computer. It is a Sony VAIO PC-V308. It is 2 years old now. I don't think the newer VAIO's come with it anymore. I wanted to get a Zefiro ZA2 soundcard but my computer doesn't have any ISA slots which is necessary for the Zefiro.
Obviously we have a few uneducated people when it comes to mp3's here. If you download a high bitrate file and you have a high quality soundcard they sound excellent. I use the TOSLINK output on my soundcard and feed it directly to my DAC. If the mp3 file was encoded properly the sound quality should be excellent. It's not as easy as just saying "mp3's suck". a 320 kbit/sec mp3 file is right around a 50% compression of the original. Compared to dvd's, minidisc, etc. this is a very low amount of compression. I've encoded several of my audiophile cd's to mp3's and then played them back side by side with the originals and only a couple of times have I noticed any difference and even then it was enough to leave me doubting whether or not the difference existed.