SAMSUNG SH-W08A DVD±R/RW recorder- Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The Samsung drive uses 40x CAV reading strategy for CD-DA. Below you can see the results from the CDSpeed transfer rate test with a pressed audio CD:

According to Nero CDSpeed, the average reading speed was 31.50x, while at the end of the reading process it reached a maximum speed of 41.62x. The seek times are also good.

We ripped the contents of the same audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software. The average ripping speed (burst mode) of 17,5x, is satisfactory.

The same pressed audio disc was copied onto a CD-R and was read again with CDspeed.

- Advanced DAE Quality

In the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test, the Samsung drive returned an average speed of 17.39x, which is a good performance, and a quality score of 100. According to CDSpeed, the drive can read Cd Text and Subchannel Data but doesn`t support Leadin and Leadout.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

The Samsung drive managed to playback a full 99min audio CD without problems, but didn`t managed to play the 90min test disc, having read problems with the last tracks.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used two audio discs with different audio protection schemes. We performed the tests for both recognition and ripping to the hard disk. The software used was Exact Audio Copy.

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

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

The Samsung drive played back successfully only the CDS200 but failed with the Key2AudioCD protected disc.

• Cactus Data Shield 200.0.4 - 3.0 build 16a (Aiko Katsukino - The Love Letter)

The drive recognize the contents of the disc:

...but cannot rip them: