KenWood 72x TrueX CD-Rom- Page 8

Conclusion

The KenWood 72x TrueX CD-Rom supposed to be the king of CD-Roms and dominate the title of "fastest CD-Rom on planet". However, reality is not exactly, as KenWood would expect...The drive performs very well with pressed CDs and outperforms any other CDRom in WinBench data test. In addition, drive performs well with Audio pressed CDs and gives back fast but not very accurate wav files. If your CD is not in a perfect condition, you will face problems. Also noticeable is how quiet the drive is, since it operates only from 2700- 5100ppm when most 40x-50x CD-Roms goes up to 8000-9000ppm and produce lot of noise!

The weakest point of the drive is the compatibility problem, which we faced with blue dye media written at various speeds. In some cases, the drive had a hard time to read the CD (very poor performance) and in other cases, the drive could not read the written media at all! Also the drive needs to improve it's RW reading capability since it failed to recognize two RW CDs, which worked without any problems, into other CD-Roms and CDR-W drive we had.

However this noticed with several brands we tested. In order to be sure that we are not the only one who has these problems we also made the tests with second unit, which gave back similar results. KenWood 72x TrueX also cannot reduce DAE or DATA read speed, which makes reading scratched CDs (especially Audio) a very difficult task. Last, it does not support MMC DAO RAW reading, which is something most users want from their CD-Roms nowdays.