ASUS CRW5224 CD-RW - Page 5

DAE Tests

- DAE features

- Pressed AudioCD

The ASUS CRW-5224A is probably the faster CD-RW with pressed Audio discs. The drive goes up to 52X DAE and gives an average of 37.6X, leaving the AOpen and Sony drives the second and third positions, respectively.

- Audio CD-R media

With CD-R media, the ASUS drive is still fast enough but the AOpen CRW5224 got the first place with 35.5X. Note that with the CD-R Test disc, the ASUS drive reported 212 errors in a specific point...

- EAC Secure Extract Ripping mode

EAC's secure extract ripping mode results, which ensures maximum produced WAV quality. Note that for each drive we used the built-in detection function:

- Advanced DAE test

All the drives got a "100" score. The DAE speed for the ASUS drive is 37.66X, while the AOpen CRW5224 gets the second place with 35.5X.

- Bad CDR Media results

We used CD DAE software to rip the whole disc (756539616 sectors) to the hard disk.

The condition of the disc can be considered as very bad, so the purpose of this test is not to get the best results with any read errors, but to estimate the capabilities of the drive. The ASUS drive does recognize the disc contents but cannot rip any track at all.

- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used 2 protected AudioCDs, which we tested in both recognition and ripping (with EAC BURST mode) processes:

* Pressed AudioCD with Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)
* Pressed AudioCD with Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

The ASUS CRW5224 was able to rip CDS200 protected Audio discs, while none of the tested drive could even recognize Key2Audio protected discs...