Burning to CD at highest quality / bit rate? Burning speed?

AAC is a lossy compressed format, as is MP3. It is not the equivalent of a WAV, which if you use the normal settings, is uncompressed and lossless.

(It is also possible to make a compressed WAV file by adjusting the sample rate and the bits per sample, but there is no normal reason to ever do so.)

The burning process "should" not reduce the audio quality at all. However, if you experience static or similar problems on a burned CD, slowing down the burn speed is often a way to correct it. The burn speed is an option in burning preferences.

If you are burning an audio CD, you don't get a choice of how to bur nit.
It is burned at 44.1 KHz.

How do i set my itunes up to burn WAV, not ACC?

Do you want an audio CD or a data CD. An audio CD is not WAV (or AIFF).
If you want an audio CD simply select *Audio CD* after you click the Burn button.

If you want to burn a data CD with WAV files, create the WAV files, put them into a playlist, click Burn and select Data CD

kelric wrote:
So slowing the burn speed wont help me???

As noted in my previous answer, it might help. After some history of iTunes giving me static-y burned CDs, I started using burn speed 4X and have not had a problem.