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Originally posted by Upp3rd0G
Some people say that with respect to the Plextor Px-40ts the newer generation cd-readers has taken over, for example the Ltd-163... I think that the results of my Ltd-163 are bad... It deals very bad with the 'blackened' part of the test cd. It deals pretty good with the scratches. But it reads errors near the end of the cd while there aren't any... Would a firmware upgrade improve results? (My current firmware GHOE, doesn't cache audio, while more recent firmware all cache audio...)
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Can't say about the Plextors. I have tested a number of the Firmwares for the LTD163 and I don't believe that audio ripping quality was improved in any of the later ones. Whereas caching and problems with ISRC have been introduced. It may be different with the LTD163D, I haven't tried changing the Firmware there - I don't own the LTD163D that I have access to.
One question, do you use the LTR40125s to burn CDs using EAC? If so, if you rerip the CDs do you get ISRCs of all zeros if there is no ISRC info in the que sheet? I do.
I have tried disabling the "Drive is able to write UPC/ISRC" option but that makes no difference, it still burns these all zero ISRCs. If there is a ISRC in the que sheet, it does write it properly. Hmmm, perhaps I should try out Feurio to see if it is the drive alone or the combination of EAC and the drive. The Ricoh does not do this - I think.
Also, I don't use the LTR40125s for ripping as it seems to have a strange ripping issue when used with C2 where it gets these areas of exactly 6.6966 seconds (295323 samples) of different samples about once every 4 CDs. I think it is an issue with the cache, it is of the right order, if the CD is reripped the problem is not repeated so it is not the CD.
Regards,
Bob