Audio Capturing

As mentioned above, the drive doesn’t yield C2 pointers to the standard command, so the EAC utility couldn’t identify this feature. But the lack of caching of audio data is a big advantage which considerably reduces the time it takes to grab the tracks.

We decided to adjust our approach to evaluating the results of the ADAE Test. We will examine the absolute read and write offsets for the drives rather than the relative offsets.

Both read and write offsets of the BenQ DW1620 are too high, so this drive isn’t the best choice for working with audio. The rest of the parameters are normal, though. The drive can’t read the Lead-Out, but everything’s all right otherwise.

The new BenQ shows its best in a real extraction of audio tracks. Note that it’s fast both with a normal and with a bad Audio CD.