I just got a new Lite On drive and unfortunetly I have to disable the "Allow speed reduction during extraction" option because ripping speed slows down to about 2x after the first track and it never speeds up again.

So I feel kind of bad for disabling it, someone please tell me it's just as secure as not disabling this option he he . But seriously... should I be concerned that I will get inaccurate results by disabling this option?

Thanks,

All of my MMC-1 drives do not benefit from this setting at all ... the speed on read errors doesn't change a bit.

My SCSI PX40 will rip less accurate with speeddown disabled, though ...

Ugh thats not the answer I wanted to hear. haha j/k,

Anyone else?

If you have Nero, do this: Insert a CD and start Nero DriveSpeed. Set "CD Read Speed" to 24x. Make sure "Current:" also shows 24x. Start ripping with EAC; the ripping speed will not slow down to 2x anymore.

Sometimes EAC seems to reset the DriveSpeed setting. Experiment a bit on when you can start DriveSpeed (before or after you start EAC?).

Another plus: At 24x maximum speed, error detection is likely more precise.

It works! I have to start drivespeed before opening EAC.

Thank You!!

EDIT:

You don't need nero to use drivespeed, I'm pretty sure it's freeware. Available here.

Oh great! It's not working now . I tried to start it before and after opening EAC but after the first track is extracted it slows down to 2x again.

What drive model do you have? What options are you using in EAC (ripping mode)?

Used drive : LITE-ON LTR-52327S Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Combined read/write offset correction : 0
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No

Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Installed external ASPI interface

As I told in another thread also, I'm experiencing this exact same problem:
A slowdown after the first track, as EAC almost freezes up at 99.9% of it.
Since the problem occours at the very end of each track, maybe is something wrong related to gap detection, not sure.
Going back do EAC 0.9b4 helped to keep the speed high, but it keeps taking 15+ seconds in almost all tracks.
My drive is the 522446S model.

do you have "spin up drive before each track" enabled? that causes long pauses for me, too sometimes, I'd leave that off

Nope, the box is unchecked.

I'm trying changing other options, ATM.
I've got speed improvement and constancy. (now is around 8-9x+) and no more
long slowdowns between tracks.
It still taking some time at the end of each track, but much less.(3 seconds aprox)
The options I've changed:
Set read offset to +6
Set write offset to -6
the drive is set to gap detection level of "C", (secure)
the drive is capable of c2,(enabled).

I'm going to test on several other disks, to make sure the performance really improved.

also try disabling the "synchronize between tracks" option.
found in EAC -> EAC options -> extraction

-andy-