Ricoh MP5240A Vs AOpen DRW4410 - Page 10

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The AOpen and Ricoh drives support 40x maximum DAE speed, under the CAV reading mode. Our 74min audioCDs were ripped at 26.4x average for AOpen and 26.2x for the Ricoh drive. Both drives were slower with the copied audio CD.

- Advanced DAE Quality

Ricoh MP5240A

Aopen DRW4410

Ricoh and Aopen gave back the same quality score 100 (Perfect) and almost the same average speed. The Nero CDSpeed advanced DAE reports that both drives cannot read data from the Lead-out area of a disc. On the other hand, they can read CD-Text , subchannel data, and can copy on the fly at 1-16x without problems.

- Ripping 99mins AudioCDs

Both drives refused to rip the contents whole of 90min and 99min audio CDs. In case of the 99min disc ripping was terminated at the 80% of the total process. The situation was the same with the 90min disc.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used two audio discs with different audio protections. The tasks we tested are both recognition and ripping to the hard disk. The software we used is the 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)

Both drives seems to have problems with the Key2Audio protected disc. None of the drives managed to read the audio files, so we couldn't playback or rip them. No problem occurred with the CDS200 disc.