YAMAHA CRW-F1E CD-RW
6. DAE Tests
YAMAHA CRW-F1 IDE CDR-W - Page 6
DAE Tests
- DAE features
- Pressed AudioCD
In this test we examine the speed of the DAE of the drives. The YAMAHA CRW-F1 supports up to 44X DAE. The results with pressed media were slower than the CyberDrive, Asus and LiteOn drives and reached 30.6X. The slower drive comes from Plextor with 30.1X, due to lower reading speed (40X).
- AudioCD-R media
All the drives except from Asus lowered the average DAE speed with CD-R media. CyberDrive CW078D seems to have some problems compared to the previous test, as it slowed down to 32.7X. However it is still faster than YAMAHA CRW-F1 (30.2X) and PleXWriter PX-W4012A (29.7X).
- 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:
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Tested Drives
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Average DAE Speed (X)
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Pressed
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CDR
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YAMAHA CRW-F1
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7.2
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7.3
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Asus CRW4816A
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10.4
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10.7
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CyberDrive CW-078D
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8.5
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8.8
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LiteOn LTR-40125S
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10.9
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11.1
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Plextor PX-W4012A
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7.3
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7
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- Advanced DAE Quality
All tested drives got a 100 score (best) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test, except from CyberDrive CW078D, which produced 18320 data errors. The average speed for YAMAHA CRW-F1 was 30.66X. The drive can also read data from Lead-in, CD-text and SubChannel.
- CD-Check Audio Test Disc
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Error Level
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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YAMAHA CRW-F1
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5/5
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5/5
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5/5
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4/5
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0/5
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The YAMAHA CRW-F1 partly fulfilled the forth level requirement of CD-Check test disc without perfect score (4/5). The drive didn't produce any pops during the playback process until that level.
- Bad CDR Media results
We used CD DAE 99 software to rip the whole disc (756539616 sectors) to the hard disk.
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Average Speed (X)
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Errors
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Errors Of Total Disc (%)
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YAMAHA CRW-F1
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6
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61230297
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8.09
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Asus CRW4816A
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Drive locks when disc inserted
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CyberDrive CW-078D
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3.7
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509053
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0.07
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LiteOn LTR-40125S
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15.2
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472459
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0.06
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Plextor PX-W4012A
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22.6
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86674027
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11.46
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The YAMAHA CRW-F1 ripped the disc contents at 6x and produced 8.09% errors of the entire contents. The results are not very good compared with other drives.
- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs
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Tested drives
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Ripping up to
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YAMAHA CRW-F1
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99 min
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- 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)
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Key2Audio
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CDS200
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EAC
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YAMAHA CRW-F1
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Cannot recognize disc contents
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Rips entire disc without problems
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Asus CRW4816A
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Cannot recognize disc contents
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Can recognize the disc contents but cannot
rip!
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CyberDrive CW-078D
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Rips entire disc without problems
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Plextor PX-W4012A
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Rips entire disc without problems
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Rips entire disc without problems under
special settings
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YAMAHA CRW-F1 can handle only CDS200 protected audio discs. The drive couldn't recognize the "Celine Dion" protected Audio disc and it kept blinking without any reading action. The strange is that the drive could rip without any issues other Key2Audio test disc. Future firmware upgrades can improve the Key2Audio compatibility...
