Artec VPP-8D24Q - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

According to Nero CDSpeed the drive supports 40x DAE speed.

Nice smooth performance with very steady velocity (CAV).

We ripped the contents of the same audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software.

The average reading speed of the Artec drive according to Nero's CD Speed Advanced DAE test, is 29.86x. The quality score of the drive is 100, while no data or sync errors were reported during the test. Thus the drive can safely be used for on the fly copying at up to 16x reading speeds. In addition, the drive supports Leadin reading, CD text and Subchannel Data information, but not Leadout.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

The Artec drive managed to playback successfully the 99min test disc, while with the 90min disc, it produced read errors and pauses during the last song, after the 86min mark. We then ripped the same discs to our Hard Disk. The drive managed to rip up to 94min out of 99min where it had problems with the last track, while there were no problem with the 90min disc.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used two audio discs with different audio protection schemes. We tested 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 Artec VPP-8D24Q managed to successfully read and rip both of our protected Audio CDs.