BenQ DW822A 8X Dual - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The BenQ DW822S supports 40x maximum reading DAE speed with CAV reading strategy.

The Nero CDSpeed shows that the drive surpassed the specifications. The test finished with maximum DAE speed of 42.86x and very good seek times.

To test the ripping speed of the BenQ we ripped the contents of the same audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software. For CD-R media we used a clone of the pressed disc.

- Advanced DAE Quality

NeroCDSpeed Advanced DAE quality test finished without Data or Synch errors and the software awarded the BenQ drive with a quality score of 100 (perfect). The test reported that the average DAE speed of the drive is 28.82x, and it can be saftely used for fast DAE reading tasks, as shown in the above graph. The drive could be used without problem, as a reader for on the fly copying up to 16x reading speed. On the advanced features, CD Text, Subchanell Data and Leadin informations are readable but the drive is not able to read Leadout information.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

The BenQ managed to rip the contents of our 90/99min test discs successfully.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For this 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)

All test devices of the comaprison managed to play back and rip the contents of both protected audio discs without problems.