Huge increase in CD read speed

Hey All,
Last night while copying a CD to iTunes I noticed my drive was much louder than normal. It sounded like the spindle was noisier. I looked at the read speed of my drive and it ranged from a low of 12x to a high of 16x. I've never seen my SuperDrive record such speeds. It copied a full CD in a minute or two. My usual write speed seems to be 5-6x. Does anyone have an explanation for this? Was there an update that may have done this?
Thanks,
Jason

I've noticed this too on my new iMac with Pioneer superdrive. It does it on some CD's and not others. It doesn't do it all on my other iMac with Matshita superdrive. It also makes a continuous ticking sound the entire time it is importing a CD. Any ideas about what might be wrong?

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