Advice please - Which Drive for Ripping?

[Chip]

Hi all,
I am considering a replacement or additional drive for ripping CDs.
I would like to know which drive(s) should be on my short list?
Quality of product
Ripping Quality
Performance
Personal Experience
Personal Preference

Does a list like this exist somewhere?

Thanks,
Chip

[BugsBunny]

Re: Advice please - Which Drive for Ripping?

You can find a feature list here:

http://www.daefeatures.co.uk/search.php

And here a discussion:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=64848

I've recently tested around 20 drives I've got at home.
I cecked the features of the drives and reported them back to daefeatures.

I also used a disc (without scratches) that is old (from '83) and it seems that the info layer of this disc degraded over time. It seems impossible to rip without errors. Then I also used a disc that is copy controlled.

Very good results I got with the PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W4012S and the PLEXTOR DVDR PX-716A.
The TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S203D is quite good as well but has no overread from/into leadin/leadout.
I would in any case look for a drive that supports C2 error detection. The drives I tested without C2 nearly always reached 6 ultra passes with the degraded CD. New errors were detected after each ultra pass (-> marked red). Wereas this was rarely the case with drives that supported C2. It seems as if C2 helped quite a lot to get consistent results in the different passes.
If you want the read leadin/leadout feature as well maybe the best thing is to get some older Plextor on ebay.