Unfortunately recording audio-out to audio-in from a CD player to CD recorder won't get you any closer to the sound you desire. It will just lose more in the process. To be honest, when you get used to ripping songs and burning them on a computer, it's ten billion times easier than using a CD recorder, as well as being a lot faster, and it doesn't create as many wasted CDs. Remember if you fluff up a recording, you can't rewind a bit and re-record over the bit you got wrong, the CD just ends up in the bin, unless you use CDRWs which many domestic players won't play.