Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Man, I'm so pissed off right now!  I've been trying to get my songs 
from the XL-7 to CD, which in itself isn't a problem.  The problem I'm 
having is the end sound quality.  Everything sounds fine on the XL-7 
through my headphones or computer speakers.  I even took it over to my 
friends house and plugged it up to his Yamaha reference speakers and 
it sounded kick ass there.  So, I decided to make a master to CD.  I'm 
running the line-ins to my M-Audio Audiophile 2496, making the levels 
as hot as possible without going into the red in the M-Audio Control 
Panel.  That's routed into Cakewalk HS, making sure its levels stay as 
hot as possible without going into the red.  I record it at 24-bit 
with line-level EQ and export it as a 16-bit wav file.  Then I use 
Nero Burning Rom to burn the wav file to CD.  Well, after all that the 
CD comes out with to much bass and highs. Also, its way to quiet.  So, 
what I did was boost the volume of the song by 3db in Cakewalk after 
recording, and cut the bass and highs in Nero.  The CD is still too 
quiet.  Meaning, when I'm in my car I have to turn the radio all the 
way up to start feeling the music and when I turn the CD off my radio 
fucking blasts my eardrums out.  Has anyone else had this problem 
before?  Thanks, Brandon.