BenQ DW800A DVD+RW- Page 8

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The BenQ drive performed very well with the pressed audio disc. According to Nero CDSpeed, the drive began the reading procedure at 18.57x and finished at 42.89x with an average speed of 32.47x.

We ripped the contents of the pressed audio disc in our hard drive using the CDDAE software. The average speed for BenQ was 28.4x. This was the same speed as the Optorite drive while LiteOn was the fastest at 39.9x.

The same pressed audio disc was copied on a CD-R and was ripped again with CDDAE. LiteOn was once again the fastest. In this test BenQ was the slowest among the three drives.

- Advanced DAE Quality

BenQ DW800A returned a score of 100 (perfect) from the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. According to CD Speed the drive can read Cd Text, Subchannel Data and Leadin but not Leadout data.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

Both 90 min and 99min discs were supported by the BenQ drive.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

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

All three drives have proved competent, easily handling both Audio disc protection schemes in either playback or ripping.