With the recent purchases of my JVC X'eye, I dug out my old USB CD Burner and burnt a few games only to find the audio produced pops and hissing.
Turns out you need to use --swap to
"Swap the byte order of all samples that are send to the CD-recorder" - who
knew!
Here's an example
cdrdao write --swap --eject -n --speed 2 something.cue