Teac DV-W58G-A

Review Pages

1. Package - Installation
2. Data CD Reading Tests
3. CD Error Correction Tests
4. DVD reading tests
5. DVD Error Correction Tests
6. Protected Disc Tests
7. DAE Tests
8. CD Recording Tests
9. 3T Jitter Tests - Page 1
10. 3T Jitter Tests - Page 2
11. C1 / C2 Error Measurements
12. DVD Recording Tests
13. KProbe PI/PO quality tests
14. Conclusion

TEAC DV-W58G-A - Page 7

DAE Tests

- Pressed and CDR AudioCD results

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

The specifications of the drive were confirmed by CDSpeed.

We ripped the contents of the same audio disc to our hard disk, using the CDDAE software. The average ripping speed (burst mode) of 28.5x, was the fastest among the two other drives.

With the CDR audio disc, the performance was almost the same as with the original, quite faster that the other two drives.

- Advanced DAE Quality

The average reading speed of the TEAC drive according to Nero's CD Speed Advanced DAE test, is 28.26x. The quality score of the drive is 100, while no data or sync errors were reported during the test. Also according to the software the drive can safely be used for on the fly copying at up to 16x reading speeds , with an exception at 6x. In addition the drive supports Leadin / Leadout reading and Subchannel Data information.

- Support of 90/99mins AudioCDs

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

- Reading/Ripping Protected AudioCDs

For the test procedure we used two audio discs with different audio protection schemes. We tested 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)