TEAC DV-W58G - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

According to the specifications, the TEAC DV-W58G drive supports 40x CAV for DAE.

Nero CDSpeed confirms TEAC's specifications. The maximum DAE speed reached was 40.87x. The disc reading was under CAV mode with an average speed of 30.93x.

We ripped the contents of the same audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software. The average ripping speed (burst mode) of 35.2x, was the fastest among the three drives and is one of the fastest speeds with this test (e.g. the LiteOn LDW-811s has reached 39.9x).

- Advanced DAE Quality

The average reading speed of the TEAC drive according to Nero's CD Speed Advanced DAE test, is 28.12x. The quality score of the drive is 100, while no data or sync errors were reported during the test. The software also reports that the drive can safely be used for copying on the fly at reading speeds up to 16x. In addition the drive supports reading of Leadin, Leadout and Subchannel Data information.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

TEAC managed to rip the contents of our 90/99min test discs successfully.

- 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 Sony Key2Audio (Celine Dion - New Day Has Come)

* Pressed Audio disc protected by Cactus Data Shield 200 (Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island)

The TEAC DV-W58G was not able to read the contents of the Key2Audio protected disc. On the other hand, the CDS200 protected disc was not a problem for the drive.