> Wow. That is very disappointing news. I'm getting 14x with the dual 867 > MDD. Would you mind trying it at 160kbps and 128kbps just to see if it > can get any faster at those lower rates please? Maybe AAC encoding has > a ceiling that no amount of additional processing power will help. > > k > > On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 06:32 AM, Julian Tracy wrote: > >> With the 1.2 Sonnet, and a 52X fire wire cdrw, AAC @ 192kbps - ripping >> ranges from 14X - 17X. >> >> Julian Tracy > I'll give it a try tonight and let you know... I'm happy with it because with the stock 450 I was probably more in the range of 5x - 8x. Julian