CyberDrive DX122D recorder - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The CyberDrive uses 40x CAV reading strategy for CD-DA. Below you can see the results from the CDSpeed transfer rate test with a pressed audio CD.

According to Nero CDSpeed, the average reading speed was 32.50x, while at the end of the reading procedure reached the 42.91x speed. The seek times were good.

We ripped the contents of the same audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software. The average ripping speed (burst mode) of 29x, is good.

The same pressed audio disc was copied onto a CD-R and was read again with CDspeed.

- Advanced DAE Quality

In the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test, the CyberDrive returned an average speed of 29.86x and two sync errors, which is good performance, and a quality score of 98.5. According to CDSpeed the drive can read Cd Text and Subchannel Data but this is not the case for Leadin and Leadout.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

CyberDrive device managed to playback 90min and 99min test discs, successfully.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

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

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

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

CyberDrive device playbacked successfully both Key2AudioCD and Cactus Shield audio protected discs.