Pioneer DVR-A06 DVD±RW recorder - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

Pioneer DVR-A06 supports 32x CAV DAE speed. The average ripping speed was 23.1x on the pressed audio disc and 21.2x on the CD-R. Optorite DD0203 was slightly faster with approximately 27x average ripping speed.

- Advanced DAE Quality

Pioneer DVR-A06 got a 100 score (perfect) under the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. The average reading speed is 23.70x. We can see that the drive supports reading of SubChannel data and CD Text.

- Ripping of 99mins AudioCDs

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCD's

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

* Pressed AudioCD with Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)

* Pressed AudioCD with Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

Pioneer DVR-A06 is not fully compatible with protected audio discs. Although the drive recognized the Key2Audio protected disc, the software locked and the extraction was not possible. The situation was the same when using the PlexTools software. On the other hand, the Cactus DataShield 200 protection was easily handled by the drive. It might be the case that a firmware upgrade can help users overcome similar situations and we thus urge them to apply to the manufacturer their requests.