TDK 1616N Recorder - Page 6

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The TDK 1616N supports up to 13-32X CAV DAE speed. The following results were reported when using Exact Audio Copy.

The TDK 1616N was slower with both Pressed CD and CDR media. TDK's drive reported similar DAE speeds with NEC's ND-25x0 series and TDK's 882N drives. The TDK 1616N drive can report C2 errors, but caching is not supported.

- Advanced DAE Quality

Very good recorders can achieve a perfect quality score of 100. The TDK 1616N achieved a score of 99.1, which is a very good score (but not perfect) while the Pioneer DVR-108's average speed was faster than that of the TDK 1616N. The TDK drive cannot read Leadin data and Leadout data, but it can read CD Text and Subchannel data. The reported average speed was 24.30X. Again, the drive reported similar behaviour with the TDK 882N drive.

- Ripping 90mins AudioCDs

The drive can read/rip flawlessly 90min Audio CDs at an average speed of 23.17X, starting the reading process at 15.38X and reported a maximum speed of 32.97X. Reading speed was automatically reduced near the end of the reading process, from the 77th min to the end and the drive read the disc without errors.

- Ripping 99mins AudioCDs

The TDK 1616N could not even recognize the 99min Audio CD we used for this test. The time length was wrong and the reading process could not start, giving the following error message.

It should be noted that 99min Audio CDs were a problem with all NEC based drives.