Performance in Exact Audio Copy

The second audio extraction utility, Exact Audio Copy, differs from Nero CD DAE as it is capable of making use of the hardware characteristics of optical drives to achieve the maximum quality of the resulting files. I used the EAC utility to determine the hardware properties of the drives and then to extract audio tracks (in the Secure Mode) from the same disc as in the previous test; the tracks were saved as WAV-files.

To check out the support of C2 errors, a special “bad” audio disc was used, prepared by Nero CD-DVD Speed.

The program doesn’t find the LG drives capable of caching the data, although this is questionable, recalling the results of Nero CD-DVD Speed. All the drives can process C2 errors and support the Accurate Stream mode.

The drives all extracted the audio tracks without errors. The GSA-4160B took the least time to do it, while the Sony DW-D22A was the slowest in this test.