I just did some tests, and this issue is not fixed in MC11. With a Pioneer DVR-A07XLA, the speed setting in MC11 does not have any effect on the rip speed.
On a related note, the selectable speed settings in the MC11 dropdown box does not correspond to the available CD read speeds that this drive offers (a Pioneer DVR-A07XLA.) The available options in the MC11 settings for this drive are 1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, and Max. These, however, correspond to the avialable "DVD" speeds that the drive offers rather than the available CD rip speeds, which go all the way up to 40x. When I rip, the speed displayed in MC11 only goes up to a max of 8x, but I'm wondering if it actually IS ripping at 40x, but just considering the maximum speed to be "8x" because it's incorrectly calculating the speed as if it was a DVD.
In any case, it's not working "correctly." The displayed speed seems to be wrong, and the MC11 speed settings have no effect on the drive's speed. Given that Pioneer drives are one of the more popular drives out there, and the fact that this model was new as of the beginning of the year, this seems like an odd issue for a program like MC to have.
Thanks for any help/feedback on this. The fact that MC11 is not letting me manually drop the rip speed for this drive is interfering with my ability to get reliable rips on slightly damaged discs.
Larry