I stopped exporting files from Nuendo now... lol
I dont like the way the export engines render the sound. It kinda squishes mixes in a ugly way.
SO what i do now is go from my stereo buss out to the Alesis Masterlink
i buss it out all in 24bit 96khz, so, no dithering no nothing to effect the quality... then burn it to a cd and encode it with the hardware dithering within the masterlink....
point being... if you can afford to get a outboard cd burner that burns master disks... with a hard drive, then do so... because i didnt even realize how much of a difference it made until my exporting option started acting gay in Nuendo, and i shot it out to the masterlink just out of curiosity.
i think the next thing i want to invest in (after i get the RME fireface) is a DSP card. Probably that Duende from Solid State, or The new Focusrite joint that is basically a Liquid Channel without the mic preamps.