Mitsumi DW-7872TE DVD±RW recorder - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The Mitsumi DW-7872TE uses 40x CAV reading strategy for CD-DA. Below is the resultant output from the CDSpeed transfer rate test with a pressed audio CD:

According to Nero CDSpeed, the average reading speed was 32.25x, while at the end of the reading procedure was at 42.79x. 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 29.6x, was acceptable. Teac was the fastest at 35.2x.

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 Mitsumi drive returned an average speed of 29.28x, which is good performance, and a quality score of 99.2. According to CDSpeed the drive can read Cd Text and Subchannel Data but not Leadin and Leadout.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

Mitsumi drive managed to playback both 90min and 99min test discs.

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used two audio discs with different audio protection schemes. We tested 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)

Mitsumi drive playbacked successfully the Key2AudioCD protected disc but failed with the CDS200, where the drive recognized the disc but cannot rip or play the contents of the disc.