Mitsumi CR-4808TE IDE CDR-W - Page 4

DAE Tests

Test Method:
We used CD DAE 99 v0.21 beta and EAC v0.9 prebeta 11 software in order to check the DAE performance of the Mitsumi CR-4808TE with various AudioCDs (both pressed and CDR). The posted DAE results are the average of both applications, but the CPU usage was only taken from CD DAE 99, since EAC occupies the system a lot more. As a last note, we used the "BURST" reading mode of EAC. We made a full CD Rip starting from the first to the last track of the CD. The Average DAE reported speed along with the CPU Usage is displayed in the test graphs.

- DAE features:
As the program reported, the drive doesn't "Caching" data, supports "Accurate Stream" and doesn't support "C2 Error info".

- Pressed AudioCD results: (click here to see the CD Speed 99 graph)
The Mitsumi supports up to 24x DAE with both pressed and CDR media. The drive uses full CAV as the main reading technology. However compared to the other competitors, Mitsumi CR-4808TE is much slower:

The drive has an average of 17.0x, staying far away from the top performer PX-W1610A. The LiteOn LTR-16101B comes second and Teac 516EB third.

- CDR AudioCD Results: (click here to see the CD Speed 99 graph)
The drive performs exactly the same as with the pressed media. The average DAE is again around 17.2X:

- EAC Secure Extract Ripping mode:

After many viewer's requests we have added the 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:

- Advanced DAE Quality:

The Mitsumi CR-4808TE performed excellently at the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE quality test. The drive produced 0 data/sync errors and got a perfect score (100). The drive can read "CD-Text" enabled AudioCDs and can read "SubChannel Data" (from audio tracks) as the test results indicate:

- Bad CDR Media results:

Despite the fact that Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test stretches drive's mechanism to the max, we decided to do real life tests with a scratched disc. The disc was dirty, and with some light scratches, enough in order cause problems to most of the tested drives. We used CD DAE 99 software to rip the whole disc (756539616 sectors) and the results were very interesting:

As the tests proved, the Mitsumi drive has very good DAE quality. The drive reported only 95 errors, when PleXWriter PX-W1610A has 5069 and LiteOn 155252. Of course it cannot compete the Teac 516EB, since it's the absolute king of this test.

- Ripping 90 and 99min CDs:

As we can see from the above graphs, the Mitsumi CR-4808TE doesn't have any problems on ripping a 90min Audio CDR media. However it failed to recognize and rip 99min CDs, despite the fact that it can write them. The drive seems reading up to 89minutes: