TDK 880N DVD±RW recorder - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The TDK uses 32x CAV reading strategy for CD-DA. Below you can see the results from the CDSpeed transfer rate test with a pressed audio CD:

According to Nero CDSpeed, the average reading speed was 25.67x, while at the end of the reading procedure reached the 34.36x speed. The seek times were good.

We ripped the contents of the same audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software. The average ripping speed (burst mode) of 24.3x, was acceptable.

The same pressed audio disc was copied onto a CD-R and was read again with CDspeed.

- Advanced DAE Quality

In the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test, the TDK drive returned an average speed of 24.23x, which is good performance, and a quality score of 100. According to CDSpeed the drive can read Cd Text and Subchannel Data but this is not the case for Leadin and Leadout.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

TDK drive managed to playback 90min, but it doesn`t support 99min test discs, hence skipping tracks all the time.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used two audio discs with different audio protection schemes. We performed the tests for both recognition and ripping to the hard disk. The software used was Exact Audio Copy.

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Nec Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies sIsland)

TDK drive playbacked successfully both Key2AudioCD and Cactus Shield audio protected discs.