Best drive for EAC: LTR-48246S or LTD163
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2003 4:49 pm
I wanted to confirm if the LiteOn burner LTR-48246S is better at DAE than the DVD LTD163. I've used EAC with the following settings:
EAC says that the DVD is the "better" device for DAE- I suspect because it doesn't cache audio data- and I've used it in the past.
I've had some problems, though, and extracted one track (which caused problems with the DVD) 3 times with each drive and used EAC's "compare wave" option. The files generated by the CD-RW were all identical, but all files from the DVD differed from one another and from the CD-RW files. And the CD-RW was significantly faster to boot.
My conclusion is that the EAC recommendation is wrong and that the LTR-48246S is better at DAE.
Does anyone else have experience with this configuration? cfitz- you have a similar set up. Which drive do you use for DAE?
After preparing this post, I ran the CD-Speed quality check on the disc with both drives and the conclusion is really self-evident:
DVD (LTD163):
CD-RW (LTR-48246S):
Incidentally, KProbe showed C2=0, C1 max/ave = 7/0.37 for the disk (TDK/TY).
So much for the EAC recommendation I've followed for the last half year.
G
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CD-RW: secure
caches: yes
use C2: yes
allow speed reduction
DVD: secure
caches: no
use C2: no
allow speed reduction
EAC says that the DVD is the "better" device for DAE- I suspect because it doesn't cache audio data- and I've used it in the past.
I've had some problems, though, and extracted one track (which caused problems with the DVD) 3 times with each drive and used EAC's "compare wave" option. The files generated by the CD-RW were all identical, but all files from the DVD differed from one another and from the CD-RW files. And the CD-RW was significantly faster to boot.
My conclusion is that the EAC recommendation is wrong and that the LTR-48246S is better at DAE.
Does anyone else have experience with this configuration? cfitz- you have a similar set up. Which drive do you use for DAE?
After preparing this post, I ran the CD-Speed quality check on the disc with both drives and the conclusion is really self-evident:
DVD (LTD163):
CD-RW (LTR-48246S):
Incidentally, KProbe showed C2=0, C1 max/ave = 7/0.37 for the disk (TDK/TY).
So much for the EAC recommendation I've followed for the last half year.
G