Pioneer DVR-A05 IDE DVD-R/-RW - Page 7

DAE Tests

- DAE features

EAC v0.9 reports that Pioneer DVR-A05 supports caching of data, "Accurate Stream" but retrieves no "C2" error info.

- Pressed AudioCD results

In this test we examine the speed of the DAE of the drive. Pioneer DVR-A05 supports 32X maximum ripping speed. In the test, the drive ripped the audio files at 23.8X average. The DAE speed is another improvement of the Pioneer newest model against the DVR-A04.

- CDR AudioCD results

With CD-R media, the ripping speed is 23.3X, a little slower than in the test with the pressed CD.

- EAC Secure Extract Ripping mode

EAC's secure extract ripping mode results, which ensures maximum produced WAV quality. Note that for each drive we used the build-in detection function:

Tested Drives	Average DAE Speed (X)
	Pressed	CDR
Pioneer DVR-A05	6	5.9
Pioneer DVR-A04	4.6	4.5

- Advanced DAE Quality

Pioneer DVR-A05 got a 100 score (best) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. The average speed for the drive is 23.55X. The drive can also read data from SubChannel and CD Text.

- CD-Check Audio Test Disc

Error Level	1	2	3	4	5
Pioneer DVR-A05	5/5	5/5	4/5	3/5	0/5

The CyQ've drive showed average error correction / concealment abilities with the CD-Check audio test disc. The two first audio tracks were playbacked correctly without any error noises. The rest tracks produced audible errors.

- Bad CDR Media results

We used CD DAE software to rip the whole disc (756539616 sectors) to the hard disk.

	Average Speed (X)	Errors	Errors Of Total Disc (%)
Pioneer DVR-A05	Read error at 85% of ripping

Pioneer DVR-A05 did not manage to finish the test and gave a read error in the last tracks of the disc.

- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs

Tested drives	Ripping up to
Pioneer DVR-A05

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used 2 protected AudioCDs, which we tested in both recognition and ripping (with EAC) processes:

* Pressed AudioCD with Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)
* Pressed AudioCD with Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

	Key2Audio	CDS200
	EAC
Pioneer DVR-A05	Cannot recognize disc contents	Rips entire disc without problems
Pioneer DVR-A04	Cannot recognize disc contents	Cannot recognize disc contents

The drive cannot handle "Key2Audio" protected discs, but has no problem with Cactus Data Shield titles.