The ASUS CRW5232A-T supports up to 52X CAV DAE speed. When using a pressed AudioCD and its CD-R copy with EAC, we logged the following results:

As EAC reports, the drive caches DAE, supports accurate stream and can report C2 error information.

The ASUS CRW-5232A-T managed to achieve a score of 100 (perfect) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. CDSpeed showed that the average reading speed is 33.35X and that the drive supports reading of SubChannel data and CD-Text, while Leadin and Leadout data are not supported.

- Reading 90/ 99mins AudioCDs

• 90min AudioCD

• 99min AudioCD

Those discs are a common issue for most drives on the market. The Asus CRW-5232A-T managed to read/rip only the 99min test disc while it failed to read the 90min disc.