Philips 48x CD-ROM
3. DAE Tests
Philips (Aopen) 48x IDE CD Rom - Page 3
DAE Tests
Test Machine:
ABIT BH6
Celeron 300A over clocked to 464 MHz
128 MB SDRAM PC 100
Quantum Fireball EX 6.4 GB UDMA
CL RivaTNT
CL AWE32
MS Windows 98 Build 4.10.2136
Teac 532E-A Firmware : v3.0a (with Auto Insert Notification & Sync transfer
off)
Plextor UltraPlex 40max, Firmware v1.01, (with Auto Insert Notification off
& Sync transfer on).
Tested CD: The Chemical Brothers "Big Your Own Hole" - Track 10
Test Method: I used EAC v0.81b & AudioGrabber v1.40 to test audio capabilities. Also compared it with Teac and Plextor.
Comparing Method:
- Ripped Track10 of the CD with Drag & Drop (using CDFS) and with all
the other CD Rippers.
- Edited all wavs with Hedit v2.0.04 and located the 2 following bytes "EA
68" (chosen randomly)
- Removed all previous bytes and saved.
- Then in a Dos window compared them using: FC /b x.wav y.wav
Philips DAE results
Program |
Rip Mode |
Average Speed |
Program Results |
Hearing Quality |
CDFS Driver v4.00.130 |
Drag & Drop |
9.40x |
- |
No clicks..No sec lost..Seemed ok! |
EAC v0.81 beta |
Burst
- |
7.8x |
Copied ok |
No clicks..No sec lost..Seemed ok! |
EAC v0.81 beta |
Secure
accurate - |
3.6x |
Copied ok - |
No clicks..No sec lost..Seemed ok! |
AudioGrabber v1.40 |
Buffered
Burst - |
6.64x |
Copied ok - |
No clicks..No sec lost..Seemed ok! |
Results
The drive seem to reach max DAE speed of 9.40x with CDFS driver. Second comes
EAC (burst mode) with 7.8x and 3rd AudioGrabber with 6.64x. All wav's produced
by different method compared between them and found the same.