Aopen DRW8800/AAN - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

To test the DAE reading performance of Aopen we used NeroCDSpeed and a pressed audio disc. To check the performance on audio cdr media we made a clone of the pressed disc.

CDSpeed reported that the disc was read under CAV with average reading speed 25.67x. The reported seek times were good.

We ripped the contents of both Pressed and CD-R Audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software. Aopen gave the lowest average ripping speed of the comparison with both pressed and CDR media.

- Advanced DAE Quality

NeroCDSpeed Advanced DAE quality test awardede the Aopen drive with aquality score of 100 (perfect). The returned the slowest reading speed among the three drives while CDSpeed reported that the device is too slow for "On The Fly" copying at 16x but it can be safety be used as a reader, at slower speeds. On the advanced features, the drive does not read Leadin/Leadout informations but reads Subchannel Data and CD Text.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

The drive didn't manage to rip or play the contents of the 99min disc. However the 90min disc played and ripped successfully.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

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

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

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

The Aopen 8x8 was able to playback and rip the contents of both protected audio discs.