DAE Tests

- Test Method

We used CD DAE 99 v0.21 beta and EAC v0.9 prebeta 11 software in order to check the DAE performance of the Yamaha CRW3200E with various AudioCDs (both pressed and CDR). The posted DAE results are the average of both applications, but the CPU usage was only taken from CD DAE 99, since EAC occupies 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 11 to examine the drive's features. As the program reported, the drive does "Caching" data, supports "Accurate Stream" and can't utilise "C2" error info. All 4 tested drives support up to 40x DAE speed.

- Pressed AudioCD results - (Click to see the Nero CD Speed graph)

The Yamaha CRW3200E performed very good with our pressed CD test discs. Its average DAE ripping speed is 29.0X and gets the third place since competition is slightly faster:

- CDR AudioCD results - (Click to see the Nero CD Speed graph)

The Yamaha CRW3200E performed very good also with CDR media. This time the performance was slight slower than with pressed CDs and gets the last place:

- EAC Secure Extract Ripping mode

After many requests from numerous visitors we have added the EAC's secure extract ripping mode results, which ensures maximum produced WAV quality. Note that for each drive we used the build-in detection function:

- Advanced DAE Quality

The Yamaha 3200E got a 100 score (out of 100 - best) in the Nero CD Speed Advanced DAE test. The drive's average reading speed was 29.22x and didn't produced any errors. As the test confirmed, the drive can read SubChannel Data:

- Bad CDR Media results

Despite the fact that CD Speed 99 Advanced DAE test stretches drive's mechanism to the max, we decided to do real life tests with a scratched disc. The disc was dirty, and with some light scratches, enough in order cause problems to most of the tested drives. We used CD DAE 99 software to rip the whole disc (756539616 sectors) and the results were very interesting:

The Yamaha CRW3200E read the test disc with 5.2X and the final % percentage of errors is higher than PleXWriter and LiteOn drives.

- Ripping 90 and 99mins AudioCDs
The Yamaha CRW3200E recognized both 90/99 minute AudioCDs. The drive stops reading at 94mins:

- Ripping Audio Protected CDs

Several new AudioCDs contain copy protection in order to prevent users from creating personnal backups. For that test we used an Audio pressed CD ,Internation Artist: "Natasha Theodoridou - Yp Euthini Mou", with "KeyAudio" protection (?). The drive will take sometime, but finally it managed to read the disc contents: