INcoder TS24C-C1 portable CD-RW/DVD drive - Page 7

DAE Tests

- DAE features

EAC v0.9 reports that Pioneer DVR-A05 supports caching of data, "Accurate Stream" but retrieves no "C2" error info.

- Pressed AudioCD results

In this test we examine the DAE speed of drive. The TS24C-C1 ripped the audio files at 10X average. The ripping speed is low but the Plextor drive is even slower (7.6X).

- CDR AudioCD results

With CD-R media, the ripping speed is 9.5X, a little slower than in the test with the pressed CD.

- 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 build-in detection function:

Tested Drives	Average DAE Speed (X)
	Pressed	CDR
INcoder TS24C-C1	9.6	9.7

- Advanced DAE Quality

INcoder TS24C-C1 got a 99.8 score (best) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. Unfortunately, the drive produced 7050 data errors. The average speed for the drive is 9.96X. The drive can also read data from SubChannel and CD Text.

- CD-Check Audio Test Disc

Error Level	1	2	3	4	5
INcoder TS24C-C1	5/5	5/5	5/5	4/5	4/5

The TS24C-C1 drive showed good error correction / concealment abilities with the CD-Check audio test disc. The three first audio tracks were playbacked correctly without any error noises. The fourth and the fifth tracks gave a successful playback in the four out of the five times we reran the tests.

- Bad CDR Media results

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

	Average Speed (X)	Errors	Errors Of Total Disc (%)
INcoder TS24C-C1	Read error at 90% of ripping

Pioneer DVR-A05 did not manage to finish the test and gave a read error in the last tracks of the disc.

- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs

Tested drives	Ripping up to
INcoder TS24C-C1	Up to 88min

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

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

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

	Key2Audio	CDS200
	EAC
INcoder TS24C-C1	Recognize disc contents, but rips the first 5 tracks only	Recognizes disc contents but not all files have high quality

The drive ripped the five first tracks of the Key2Audio protected title but cold not continue and halted. With the Cactus Data Shield disc, it ripped the disc contents but the first, the sixth, the seventh and the eighth tracks had many errors.