PleXWriter PX-W4824A IDE CDR-W - Page 6

DAE Tests

- DAE features

- Pressed AudioCD

The PX-W4824A had an average DAE ripping performance and gets the last place with 30X. The YAMAHA CRW-F1E is slightly faster, due to increased 44X reading speed, while the ASUS and CyberDrive drives share the first two positions.

- AudioCD-R media

With CD-R media, the PX-W4824A has somewhat lower performance than with pressed media. The drive is the slowest with 29.9X.

- 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 Quality

The drive got a 100 score (best) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. The average speed for PleXWriter was 29.86X. The drive can also read data from Lead-in, CD-text and SubChannel.

- Bad CDR Media results

We used CD DAE 99 software to rip the whole disc (756539616 sectors) to the hard disk.

The PleXWriter PX-W4824A finished the test which a high error rate of 35.74%. Judging from the average reading speed, we can see that the drive didn't reduce its reading speed in the problematic disc areas, producing a high error rate.

- 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) 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 drive can handle Key2Audio protected audio discs without any issues, while seems to have glitches with CDS200 discs, at least with EAC software. Using PlexTools software the CDS200 problem can be overpassed, but PlexTools reported errors after the end of the process, so user is advised to use the very good error correction capabilities of PlexTools....