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Ripping capabilities of Plextor PX-230A

I'm thinking of buying a Plextor PX-230A in order to rip my CD collection to FLAC.

The main reason I'm considering the PX-230A rather than the Premium is cost - it's less than half the price - but I can't find any information regarding the drive's DAE features.

I was hoping that somebody here might own/use a PX-230A and be able to answer my questions:

Can it overread into the lead-in and lead-out?
Can it extract audio hidden in track 1 index 0? (see this topic for details)
Is it a fast and accurate ripper overall?

Many thanks

Ripping capabilities of Plextor PX-230A

Reply #1 –
I don't have it, but you can check CDFreaks' Plextor forum for info.

Ripping capabilities of Plextor PX-230A

Reply #2 –
neither cdrlabs or cdfreaks seem to have reviewed the drive yet and its been out a good couple of months already (amazon.co.uk lists it as discontinued) is there no other source of information for this drives dae features?

Ripping capabilities of Plextor PX-230A

Reply #4 –
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The main reason I'm considering the PX-230A rather than the Premium is cost - it's less than half the price - but I can't find any information regarding the drive's DAE features.

I was hoping that somebody here might own/use a PX-230A and be able to answer my questions:

Can it overread into the lead-in and lead-out?
Can it extract audio hidden in track 1 index 0? (see this topic for details)
Is it a fast and accurate ripper overall?


I had two PX-230A six months ago.  I don't know about overread capabilities.  They had a bug and couldn't read past INDEX 08.  This issue may not be important to people.  I had some classical CDs that had multiple INDEXes (more than 8) per TRACK and getting a complete CUESHEET was very important for my archives.  The Sony DRU-710, Pioneer A101, Plextor 708A, 716A, UltraPlex40 all read INDEXes properly.  I returned the PX-230A.