PleXWriter PX-W4824U CDR-W - Page 5

DAE Tests

- DAE features

- Pressed AudioCD

The PX-W4824U has an average DAE ripping performance and gets the last place with 29.7X. The SONY CRX-210E1 gets the first place with 34.8X, while the YAMAHA F1E comes second with 30.7X.

- AudioCD-R media

With CD-R media, the PX-W4824U showed a slightly better performance of 29.9X sharing the second place with PX-W4824A.

- 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 29.90X. 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-W4824U finished the test in a high error rate of 19.47%. The amount of errors is smaller than what the internal model had given, but the duration of the ripping process was extremely long, since the drive lowered the ripping speed down to 0.1X in order to read the heavily defected areas of the test disc.

- 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 both CDS200/Key2Audio protected audio discs without any issues!