- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The drive supports up to 40X CAV DAE speed. The following results were reported while using a Pressed Audio CD along with its copy and the Nero CD-DVD Speed utility. The results are given in the graph below.

Confirming the manufacturers specifications, the drive reported an average speed of 30X, with a end speed of 40X. The BenQ drive dominates though, due to its max supported speed of 48X with this media.

- Advanced DAE Quality

The following results came once more from the Nero CD-DVD Speed utility while using the advanced DAE quality test.

Pioneer received a perfect quality score of 100. Unfortunately, the Pioneer drive can't read Lead-in/out but can read CD Text and Subchannel data.

- Ripping 90/99mins AudioCDs

The drive has problems reading 90/99min Audio CDs.

As it can be seen from the transfer rate graphs, the drive failed to finish both readings.