Advanced DAE

The detailed sound-track extraction test gives out acceptable results. The “Quality Score” is maximum possible: 100%. The whole test was passed at a rather good average speed of 23x. The maximum “on-the-fly” copy speed was 12x. We guess a more powerful processor might have helped to achieve the maximum of 16x. The offset parameter equals 504Bytes, which is not the minimum, but average. The test also shows that the drive coped with the leadin zone and failed to read the data from the leadout area. The CD Text info hasn’t been read as well, while Subchannel data were extracted without any problems.

CD Quality Check

This test allows checking how well the drive can work with physically damaged or scratched CD-disks. For this test we used a CD-disk with damaged surface and the drive passed through the whole CD, but at a slow speed and with a few errors. Overall, it’s an average result.

Nero CD DAE

A program for checking the drive’s ability to rip audio tracks from CDs says it’s all right. Eighteen tracks were extracted with an average 22.5x speed and without a single error in six minutes and thirty nine seconds. This is how the drive is going to work in real life: quite well, to our opinion.