I am selling three Plextor PlexWriter Premium CD-R drives with an external USB2 enclosures on eBay
These are one of the best CD drives.
Plextor PlexWriter Premium (white) - CD-RW drive - 52x 32x - Internal IDE drive inside an USB2 enclosure - Mac, PC, 8 MB buffer
The internal IDE drive is inside a solid Aluminum External Enclosure (Macally PHC-500B 5.25'' USB2). The drive and the enclosure are in very good cosmetic and working condition.
The Plextor drive with EAC (Exact Audio Copy free software) reads and rips audio CDs almost perfectly. Each drive had been tested with more than 50 audio CDs.
Included are:
- White Plextor PlexWritter Premium drive (firmware was updated to last version)
- Macally PHC-500B 5.25'' USB2 enclosure
- 100-240V power supply
- USB cable
| By | Bob Carpenter (New York, NY) - |
This drive is amazingly accurate. I selected it to rip a thousand CDs at full resolution based on the numerous positive reviews for Plextor drives on sites devoted to exact audio copying. What I learned along the way in upgrading from my previous drive (Sony OEM of Lite-On) is that audio CDs encode bits differently than CD-ROMs, and that not all CD players are created equally in terms of their ability to read the exact bits from audio CDs.
Using a freeware (well, technically postcardware, the author would appreciate a postcard) program called Exact Audio Copy, or EAC, it is possible to assess how accurately an audio track is being read from CD. The audio CD standard allows for a fair degree of error-correction in the CDs, as well as fairly substantial error-correction via interpolation; CD players vary in their accuracy at reading and in their error-correction software. EAC is particularly good in taking multiple passes over the CD and verifying segments in which the reads disagree. EAC also controls disk read speed and looks up CD titles in a free CD database to structure the way in which tracks are stored to disk.
The bottom line is that this Plextor provides 100.0 percent accurate copies (according to EAC) on 9 out of 10 tracks, with the remaining track usually scoring a 99.9 or 99.8. My previous CD-RW was scoring 97.0 comparitively. I should note that this is at roughly an 8-10X speed multiplier, not at the 52X at which this drive is rated for super-fast CD-ROM reading and writing.
This is the drive you want to make exact audio copies. It's also surprisingly quiet and smooth.
The bottom line is: not all the CD drives are the same in terms of accuracy. The Plextor Premium is well known because has high accuracy.
Thank you for looking
Edited by bpfiguer - 7/22/10 at 7:19am
