TDK 882N Recorder - Page 6

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

The TDK 882N supports up to 40X CAV DAE speed. The following results were reported when using Exact Audio Copy.

The TDK 882N was slower than the Sony DRU-700A with both Pressed CD and CDR media. TDK's drive can report C2 errors, but caching is not supported.

Future firmware updates might improve the average DAE speed of the drive. Remember that the NEC ND-2500A and ND-2510A reported similar average DAE speeds.

- Advanced DAE Quality

Good recorders can achieve a perfect quality score of 100, but the TDK 882N achieved a score of 94.4, which is acceptable but not perfect and is even lower than the NEC drive's score. Sony's drive was again faster than the 882N. The drive cannot read Leadin data or Leadout data, but it can read CD Text and Subchannel data. The reported average speed was 24.25X.

- Ripping 90mins AudioCDs

The drive can read/rip flawlessly 90min Audio CDs at an average speed of 23.26X (33.21X max speed). Reading speed was automatically reduced near the end of the reading process, after the 77min mark up to the 89th min, but the drive read the disc without errors. Similar behavior to the ND-2510A.

- Ripping 99mins AudioCDs

The TDK 882N 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.

It should be noted that 99min Audio CDs were also a problem for the ND-2500A and ND-2510A drives, so this kind of behavior was more or less expected.