ive heard that drives that support a certain type of DAE streaming produce better results while secure ripping in EAC. anyone know if this is true? im using an asus 52x cd-rw for ripping, and its pretty good. i just want to know if there is an ideal cd-rom drive for EAC.

most drives built this century will work fine. i'm using a 3 year old 12X dvdrom on a 3 yr old puter. any cd that isnt scratched to hell will rip perfectly.

dont even worry about secure mode. just use burst mode, and use the 'test and copy' in EAC. if all the crc's come back OK, you have a perfect rip.

For quality"""as close to original as it can be""""i would rip the audio cds with eac..But,also i would configure it properly first and wouldnt rip it any other way then secure way....So far,i have only tryed a burst mode if some track would constantly fail in secure mode,so i was experimenting a bit.In short-go with secure ripping first

Check out the LTC-48161H.

It rated quite well. I have had one for about a week. It seems to rip well with EAC and it is even quieter than the usual Lite-On drive.

CDRW and DVD for just $50 on www.newegg.com

Ah, life is good.

dunno if there is THE one and only... and maybe what i bought is better, then what you buy...even if it is from the same model. IMHO DVD writer are better in ripping... be aware... this is MY opinion

NEC 1300A, LG 4040B would be my personal advices

for CD drives
i have good experience with Samsung 204B CDRW

Plextor should you search around about results... i am sure, if you get the right one...you get the best results... (though i did not experience that with MY Plex...even it was good enough to punch the most drives)


search for testers that check with EAC, for testers that check jitter...

for audio it is best, when audio is NOT buffered...and you will be great when your drive is able to catch C2 errors, and doesnt have restrictions about a program to slower and faster the speed when ripping.

dont care about speed! ... youll find , that ripping slower mostly results better... so you may have to slower your fast drive anyway to get the best results of it... and dont forget about.... when you run it slower...it will last longer :-)

The ASUS CDS-520 is a good and speedy audio ripper with a huge read offset (it's predecessor, the CDS-500 is still on top of the list with 1858 samples IIRC and I think the CDS520 is based on the same hardware layout) ... so in your case, I would check for read offset correction of your drive ...

Andre has always recommended Plextor for use with his program I think this is for EAC's error routines not necessarily C2.

Could I ask what the read offset has to do with the quality of the rip? I had thought that setting the read offset properly was the only issue.

in case of normal single-track ripping, the read offset isn't that important ... but a huge read offset (like the ASUS shows) could be responsible for missing little pieces of audio, especially on live CD's between the tracks.

Once again ... offset correction isn't important for accurate rips (although the accuraterip database somehow depends on it)

i have the asus 5224a drive. how do i set the offset correctly?

i pretty much rip everything in secure mode, i figure im not in a rush, and quality is the main concern.

Read this guide.

I have this drive and whilst it's fast, mine isn't very good with CD's that have scratches and is terrible with copy protected disc's.

I have two Plextor's, and they have the NEC whooped.

my msi dr4-a (rebadged optorite d001) rips audio cd's at 30 speed, with perfect quality.

i've recovered many a 'broken' disc which were scratched beyond repair with eac - in less than 5 minutes

keenwood 72x cd-drivefor speedy rippings

liteon 52x 32x cdr for accurate rippings
has almsot perfect c2 errors correction

Eh, I'm not sure what your Idea of "scratched beyond repair" is but I doubt this very much. Most of the time EAC will give you give in between 99-100% track quality or a read error in which case you can try extracting an image, lowering the speed of the drive, performing some type of cleaning to the disk or trying Plextools. Are you using C2? maybe your not using secure at all because 30x without C2 is unbelievable!


What speeds are you getting (non C2) ?