[paranoia] Improvement of extraction on ATAPI CDROM's

[Wolfgang Weisselberg]

Hi, Alex!

Alex (avolkov79 at mail.ru) wrote 77 lines:

> Hi Wolfgang,

> > Was that, perchance, a Plextor?

> Yes it was a Plextor. So now after I moved to normal CD-ROM the extraction
> take 3 times more.

And I venture to guess your current CD-ROM drive is not a
Plextor.  Plextor is (or at least was, I am *not* up to date
here) one of the best drives for audio extraction.

> If I understand correctly, the extraction speed with
> paranoia takes more time because of error corrections?

Especially with bad disks, yes.

> And if I will drop
> them, will I feel the difference in the quality of the audion?

Especially with bad disks, yes.

<p>If *I* needed high audio extraction speeds and had the money to
burn, I'd try a Plextor --- or even have many computers ripping
in parallel.

-Wolfgang
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