Thanks everyone for the comments and feedback, it's very much appreciated.

As many of you will already know. The review teams have been in the process of revising and modernizing our review methods and layout for many months. The review team is large with each individual having different opinions on what was required and how it should be presented and how much media (max) should be burned, so agreement was quite difficult.

I hope we came to a consensus that the members can be happy with.

So i'll try to answer these questions.

@mognegna
The DVR-115D is not as quiet as Pioneer's 16x burners, but that's to be expected with the higher spindle motor rotation speeds and the amount of air being moved.
The drive is not noisy though.

@Arachne
I never noticed this before, but my drive also seems to have a pussycat inside.

@Bob
Yes. I like the Authors page too, it allows us to run some tests that we ourselves think are important.

@cd pirate
I'm glad the hardcore CD Freaks also like our new reviewing methods and presentation, thank you.

@_chef_
JMB363 R03 (with Microsoft Vista drivers)

@loimlo
I'm already burning the maximum amount of media allowed for CD-R and DVD R. I've tried to select a good range of media to burn. Some popular and good quality media, some ok media, and some questionable quality media.

We would of course be delighted, for members to also submit results they are getting with media we haven't covered in the review.