Philips 48x CD-ROM

Review Pages

1. Introduction
2. Data Tests
3. DAE Tests
4. Final Verdict

Philips (Aopen) 48x IDE CD Rom - Page 3

DAE Tests

Test Machine:
ABIT BH6
Celeron 300A over clocked to 464 MHz
128 MB SDRAM PC 100
Quantum Fireball EX 6.4 GB UDMA
CL RivaTNT
CL AWE32
MS Windows 98 Build 4.10.2136
Teac 532E-A Firmware : v3.0a (with Auto Insert Notification & Sync transfer off)
Plextor UltraPlex 40max, Firmware v1.01, (with Auto Insert Notification off & Sync transfer on).

Tested CD: The Chemical Brothers "Big Your Own Hole" - Track 10

Test Method: I used EAC v0.81b & AudioGrabber v1.40 to test audio capabilities. Also compared it with Teac and Plextor.

Comparing Method:
- Ripped Track10 of the CD with Drag & Drop (using CDFS) and with all the other CD Rippers.
- Edited all wavs with Hedit v2.0.04 and located the 2 following bytes "EA 68" (chosen randomly)
- Removed all previous bytes and saved.
- Then in a Dos window compared them using: FC /b x.wav y.wav

Philips DAE results

Program	Rip Mode	Average Speed	Program Results	Hearing Quality
CDFS Driver v4.00.130	Drag & Drop	9.40x	-	No clicks..No sec lost..Seemed ok!
EAC v0.81 beta	Burst - Rip Speed Default - Allow speed reduction - Error correction medium	7.8x	Copied ok	No clicks..No sec lost..Seemed ok!
EAC v0.81 beta	Secure accurate - Rip Speed Default - Allow speed reduction - Error correction medium	3.6x	Copied ok - Quality 100%	No clicks..No sec lost..Seemed ok!
AudioGrabber v1.40	Buffered Burst - Rip Speed Default	6.64x	Copied ok - Audio Problems 0	No clicks..No sec lost..Seemed ok!

Results
The drive seem to reach max DAE speed of 9.40x with CDFS driver. Second comes EAC (burst mode) with 7.8x and 3rd AudioGrabber with 6.64x. All wav's produced by different method compared between them and found the same.