Project: Lite-On iHAS120 6/DH-20A6S/MSI DH-20AS 6 to Plextor PX-806SA Crossflash for PlexUTILITIES

When it comes to optical disc testing, while tests done “at home” are not as reliable as tests done on professional analysers, they are still better than no test at all. I’ve often been looking for ways to increase my testing capabilities, especially as there are “holes” in the capabilities of each drive – for example, I hadn’t any means of doing TE/FE tests reliably on CDs and the number of drives that report jitter on CDs was fairly limited. While I had a fantasy of owning a “true” Plextor CD-RW drive of the era as a way to gain access to the suite of test capabilities of PlexTools Professional and the various tweaks that were available to Sanyo-chipset drives such as GigaRec/VariRec/PowerRec etc., it would seem that age has not been kind to the drives and even though plenty of musicians who master CDs are still on the lookout for such drives because they apparently “sound better”, the truth is that most of the drives are not functioning like they used to and command unreasonably…