Burnt CDs won't play on all CD players

Either some or all tracks on a CD burnt on my eMac's SuperDrive will not play on some commercial CD players.

I use a Pioneer CMX-3000 Dj CD player at home and it won't play burnt CD's from my emac - 1.2MZ USB 1GIG Super Drive (which was the whole point of the emac in the first place so disappointing).
The Pioneer is a high end CD player that plays CD at 2 to 4 times the normal speed (allowing particular DJ functions because of it), but because of this is a bit picky about the quality of the burn CD itself.
I have tried five different brands of media (non of them cheap) different software (Toast/iTunes etc) different setting and burn speeds. No joy.
Oddly, I haven't been able to find a CD burnt in any other computer (I got my friends to burn a few - all using different media and software) and the CD player had no problem with those at all.
My suspicion is that the Super drive doesn't do a good job of burning CD's, and hence teh bad quality can't be played by some CD players.
haven't found much in the way of a solution so thinking of updating the super drive to a dual layer and possibly this might fix the problem (the Pioneer 109 seems popular).
Although, as don't know who made teh super drive taht;s in there at the moment, not sure if this is just going to be another waste of money?

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