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DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

Philips DVDR824P uses the 40x CAV strategy for CD-DA. Below you can see a CDSpeed transfer rate test with a pressed audio CD:

According to CDSpeed, the average reading speed with this disc was 32.50x, and the reported seek times were adequate.

We ripped the contents of same audio disc to the hard disk with CDDAE software. The drive gave an average ripping speed (burst mode) of 29.4x:

In the same task, the Plextor drive gave a 29x average speed, while the Ricoh / Optorite drives are slower due to their 32x CAV reading strategy.

The same pressed audio disc was copied on a CD-R and was read again with CDspeed. Philips DVDR824P gave the highest ripping speed again, finishing the task at 29.8x average.

- Advanced DAE Quality

Philips DVDR824P got a score 100 (perfect) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. CDSpeed reports that the drive can only read Leadin area information, Cd Text and Subchannel Data.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

The drive read the 76.5% of the 90min disc, which means that it ripped up to 68min address of the disc.

The 99min disc was read approximately untill the 80min address of the total disc contents.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used two audio discs with different audio protections. The tasks we tested is both recognition and ripping to the hard disk. The software we used is the Exact Audio Copy.

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

Philips DVDR824P managed to rip both the Key2Audio and the CDS200 audio protected discs. However, the ripped CDS200 files had problems and their playback revealed many mutes and skip errors.