Sanyo CRD-BP1500P CDR-W - Page 4

DAE Tests

Test Method

We used CD DAE 99 v0.21 beta and EAC v0.9 prebeta 9 softwares in order to check the DAE performance of the Sanyo CRD-BP1500P with various AudioCDs (both pressed and CDR). The posted DAE results are the average of both applications, but the CPU usage is only taken from CD DAE 99. EAC seems to occupy 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:
We used EAC v0.9 prebeta 9 to examine the drive's features. As the program reported, the drive doesn't "Caching" data or support "C2" error info, and supports "Accurate Stream". The specifications state that the drive can reach up to 40x DAE (max) with both pressed and CDR media.

- Pressed AudioCD results: (click here to see the CD Speed 99 graph)
The Sanyo CRD-BP1500P can go up to 40x DAE ripping speed without any quality problems.. The PleXWriter PX-W1610A still holds the first place but the Sanyo CRD-BP1500P is quite close:

- CDR AudioCD Results: (click here to see the CD Speed 99 graph)
The Sanyo CRD-BP1500P had some problems with CDR media. The drive denied to work correctly with most inserted CDR media with the 6.p32 firmware. After the new supplied firmware (V.vz32) the drive worked much better but again some glitches were noticeable in the CD Speed 99 graph test. Also we noticed that the drive slowed down during DAE with CDR media and gave a lower, than pressed CDs, Average DAE speed:

- Advanced DAE Quality

The Sanyo CRD-BP1500P failed to complete the CD DAE 99 Advanced DAE test since produced read error when the harmonica "Read Test" started. Therefore we only have placed the "Average Speed" (30.08). The rest recorders doesn't have any problem at all. As we said earlier this is probably a bug which will be fixed with new firmware revision from Sanyo. From other tests we confirmed that the drive can read "CD-Text" and "SubChannel Data from Audio/Data tracks".