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From: tnguyeq@gmuvax.gmu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: CD-ROM drives and speakers?
Date: 27 Mar 94 00:16:15 -0500
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I saw an ad for a NEC CDR-74 cd-rom which said that it was
MPC Level 1 compliant & XA-ready but showed the transfer
rate to be 150/300 (audio/data) kB/sec.  I thought that if
your cd-rom was at least 300 kB/sec transfer rate, it would
be MPC Level 2 compliant.  Am I wrong or was the ad wrong?
Could someone tell me if dust is a big problem or not with
internal cd-roms?  I've seen similar cd-roms sell for a
fifty to a hundred dollars more just because it was external.
If dust is a consideration with internal drives are NEC,
Mitsumi, and Chinon drives good at protecting against it
compared to other cd-rom drives.  Also, what wattage would
be good enough to hear all the sounds that are supposed to
come from a sound board.  I've heard that if the wattage is
too low or not high enough (less than 10 watts) that you
may not be able to hear, say for instance, all the musical
instruments that are coming out of your sound board.  
Also, what do you think of the Mitsumi Double Speed cd-rom
drive model CRMC-FX1001D?  The ad I saw said that this
drive has a 250ms access time, 350kB/sec transfer rate,
32k cache, kodak multisession, quicktime (what is this?),
and is MPC level 2 compliant.  Finally, if someone plans
to purchase a cd-rom drive what is a good access time to
buy a cd-rom drive at that allows for audio cds to be
played on it as well as those that are made for cd-rom
drives?  Is any cd-rom with an access time over 300ms
able to do this?