LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Recorder - Page 6

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The LaCie d2 DL drive supports up to 40X CAV DAE speed. The following results were reported when using Exact Audio Copy.

The drive was slower than the DRU-700A with both Pressed CD and CDR media. DAE speed was the same for both pressed CDs and CDR media. We hope to see DAE speed improvement with a future firmware update.

LaCie 's drive can report C2 errors, but caching is not supported.

- Advanced DAE Quality

Good recorders can achieve a perfect quality score of 100, and LaCie d2 DL managed to achieve this score. Sony 's drive was again faster than the LaCie d2. We remind you that the NEC ND-2510A achieved a quality score of 99.1 and reported several data errors.

- Ripping 90mins AudioCDs

The drive can read/rip flawlessly 90min Audio CDs at an average speed of 23.38X (33.12X max speed, exactly the same as the ND-2510A). Reading speed was automatically reduced near the end of the reading process, from 77th min to 89th min, but the drive read the disc with no errors.

- Ripping 99mins AudioCDs

The LaCie d2 DL could not even recognize the 99min Audio CD we used for this test.

It should be noted that 99mins Audio CDs were also a problem for the ND-2500A and ND-2510A drives. These discs could not be ripped but at least they were recognised by the ND-2500A.