DAE quality
2003-11-09 22:47:03
Hi. Recently I've performed the EAC DAE quality test with 2 of my drives. As people here ask "What drive should I buy" quite often, I think it's a good idea to start a thread containing of DAE tests only (and a second thread for discussing the results). There are several problems and questions about this I'd like to mention. - Does something like this already exist somewhere else so it'd be a waste of time (I know CDRinfo.com, but they've only done DAE error correction tests in some of their reviews - and the used method changes now and then.) - People who wan to test their drives need to create a test CD themselves, so the results submitted by different people won't be comparable - BUT: Some parameters should be somewhat comarable as far as I undersand, e.g. C2 accuracy. - Maybe there could be a way to improve the test disc creation process to get results with better comparability (<- is this an existing word? ), but OTH it would probably make creating the test CD more complicated. - Has anyone compared the results (s)he got with 2 (or more) different test CDs (different brand, 650 vs. 700 MB media etc.) / the same drive? - At different (reduced) extraction speed the results are different. -> What / how many speeds should be tested? - Are there other similar programs that work with all (most) drives, not only a certain brand? (NeroCDSpeed ?) - Should extraction of copy protected CDs be included? - What parts of the results shoud be posted - only numbers or also pictures? - Would it be a good idea to post some error patterns to determin the chipset's error correction capabilities (E21 E22 etc.) There are probably many more points I've missed, but this post is long enough anyway. So ... All input is appreciated, especially by "the experts" Pio2001, spath, JeanLuc (sorry if I forgot mentioning YOU ). Cheers tigre