Freecom FX-50 DVD+/-RW 16X Burner - Page 6

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The Freecom FX-50 supports 13-32X CAV DAE speed. The following results were reported when using Exact Audio Copy.

The Memorex 16X recorder supports up to 48X CAV DAE speed, the highest speed available and hence reported the highest average DAE speed. On the other hand, the Freecom and ASUS drives both support the same DAE speed but the ASUS DRW-1604P managed to produce slightly faster times than the FX-50.

The Freecom FX-50 burner can report C2 errors, but caching is not supported.

- Advanced DAE Quality

Very good recorders can achieve a perfect quality score of 100. The Freecom could only achieve a score of 89.7 and was the slowest drive among the three in the comparison. The FX-50 cannot read Leadin or Leadout data, but it can read CD Text and Subchannel data. The reported average speed was 24.26X.

- Ripping 90mins AudioCDs

The drive can read/rip flawlessly 90min Audio CDs at an average speed of 22.28X, starting the reading process at 15.33X and reaching a maximum speed of 32.96X. Reading speed dropped to around 9X near the end of the reading process, from the 77th min to the end but the drive read the disc without errors.

- Ripping 99mins AudioCDs

The 99min Audio CD we used for this test was not recognized correctly by the Freecom FX-50. The time length was wrong and the reading process could not start, giving the following error message.

It should be noted that 99min Audio CDs were a problem with all NEC based drives.