72x cdroms

[bagaki]

what ever happend to the kenwood "true 72x" cdroms? i see the fastest today is 56x. also, is there any cdroms or dvd drives that can rip audio faster than 20x?

 

[Erasmus-X]

I could be mistaken, but I think Kenwood discountued that model.

My Plextor UltraPlex40 40x SCSI CD-ROM rips audio at 15-30x (depending on which part of the disc the laser is reading). Since it's a CAV drive, it probably doesn't do 20x sustained, but it's close enough.

Then again, I once had a TrueX 72x IDE drive and for some reason it would never rip audio any faster than like 10x. Not to mention that I went through like two of them (both died within 3 months) before I lost patience and went with a Plextor.

 

[Om]

DVD's happened. I'm glad I bought two 72Xs when I did, don't know what I will do when they die. Hope someone picks up the techonology by then.

 

[LXi]

Kenwood is no longer in the PC CD-ROM business, at least they dont have any presence anymore, I wonder if I can still get warranty for these TrueX drives. Your best bet is look elsewhere, if ripping fast is what you want, then look for the TEAC 40x drives, or TDK CD-RWs, those can rip in really high speeds.

 

[Bozo Galora]

The 72X was a true/phony cdrom. It cleverly used a single laser beam split by a prism into seven beams to
read a "swath" of the single outgoung data spiral. Unfortunately, that weakened the beams "offshoots" so
that it was very picky in what it would read. They also lowered the RPM on the drive to 7000 max, and so
prominently stated on the box as an improvement over other drives. This was to overcome bad PR from
thousands of 42X 50X HiVal (Kenwood) drives that failed because they spun at levels (11,000) beyond
what could be manufactured reliably, causing drives to fail ultimately. Unfortunately the 72X would also
go bananas under certain configs and lock out in high spin mode, with light on constantly.

Edit: Rusty memory on this old issue coming back into focus.

 

[LXi]

I dont think they actually upped the RPMs, in fact, they claim to have a much lower RPM than CAV CD-ROMs since they're CLV.

 

[Insane3D]

Yeah, LXi is right. The RPM's on the Kenwood was one of the lowest and they are extremely quiet...IIRC, they spun around ~2500RPM...

 

[Booty]

I've got a 72x in my system right now...I hate it. It's the second one I've gone through...Kenwood was great about shipping me a replacement, and hopefully this one last...but it's extremely picky. The other one just quit reading discs all together. This one rips fast as hell, but only with brand new CDs...

The technology was promising, I thought, but there's some definate bugs...this is actually about the only piece of hardware I feel like I got ripped off on, since I got it a while ago when it was about $90.

 

[cvlegion]

I had one of those TrueX drives. They work wonderfully on stamped CDs but will spit out burned CDs. I have always thought that they were a good concept but they needed to increase the intensity of the laser because the reason for the drive being finicky is that the individuals beams are not strong enough. When in a read, a less reflective surface which has a slight imperfection will not reflect enough light for it to be recognized by the transducer.

 

[Bozo Galora]

Old link

The low RPM 72X was supposed to be the 'savior" of the crappy 42X 50X true-X line of drives - blaming
everything on RPM