PleXWriter PX-W4012TS SCSI CD-RW - Page 5

DAE Tests

- DAE features

- Pressed AudioCD

The PX-W4012TS and PX-W4012A drives have exactly the same DAE reading performance (30.1X) with pressed discs.

- Audio CD-R media

With CD-R media, the PX-W4012TS is slightly faster than the PX-W4012A by 0.4X.

- 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 built-in detection function:

- Advanced DAE test

All the drives got a "100" score. The DAE speed for the PX-W4012TS is 30.03X. The drive can also read Lead-in/out information, CD-text and Subchannel data.

- Bad CDR Media results

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

The condition of the disc can be considered as very bad, so the purpose of this test is not to get the best results with zero read errors, but to estimate the capabilities of the drive. The drive lowers the reading speed after 81% and eventually returns a reading error.

- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

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

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

The PleXWriter PX-W4012TS was able to rip the both CDS200 and Key2Audio protected Audio discs.