Yamaha 24X with new audio master system...

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Yamaha 24X with new audio master system...

Yamaha announces its new CRW3200 LightSpeed3 family of optical recorders. Their new (internal) IDE model is the first who 24x which features Mt. Rainier support and Yamaha's exclusive audio master quality recording system.

Mt. Rainier support adds true drag-and-drop CD rewriting and on-the-fly formatting to CD creation in operating systems such as Microsoft Windows XP(TM) and Linux, making the CD the ideal floppy disk replacement. The need to install separate CD-mastering software or a hardware driver is a thing of the past as Yamaha's CRW3200EZ is the first CD recorder that can write to a CD as easily as a floppy disc drive.

In addition, the exclusive new Audio Master Quality Recording System, designed by Yamaha, guarantees the best possible audio or data recording quality on conventional 74 or 80-minute CD-R discs. When Audio Master recording mode is enabled, the system widens the lands and the pits, significantly reducing jitter created during CD-R recording, improving audio and music recording quality to a level rivaling professionally prepared music CDs.

They say with this new technology the quality of CD recording or CD duplication is enhanced by 30%. The drive also features Yamaha SafeBurn and an 8MB buffer to prevent coasters. You can read more technical details in the press release.

The internal E-IDE CRW3200EZ will be available this month for about $199.99. The external CRW3200SXZ using Ultra SCSI interface will cost around $349.99. They also have an external fireware for $329.99 and an external USB 2.0 for $299.99. These drives will all be available in November.

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Posted by Nila on Saturday 13 October 2001 02:58

Sounds quite nice, and the mention of a SCSI version got my attention. I think I'll keep this one in mind next year when I build myself the ultimate computer (Dual 2Ghz processors, 2Gb RAM, 140Gig IDE hard drive with a 20Gig SCSI one for the OS)

Posted by on Saturday 13 October 2001 12:13

nila, your future PC sounds nice, but hey, why do you need 2GB RAM - for running 200 programs at the same time?

I'm not so sure about the floppy replacement - I mean having tried and tested Adaptec's DirectCD, I found one major flaw - there is no error checking and guarantee of your data written 100% to the disk.

I have lost quite a few files because of the CD having specks of dust and DirectCD wouldn't even know. It just writes without verifying!!

Posted by Nila on Saturday 13 October 2001 17:04

2 Gigs of RAM is because windows isn't designed properly, no matter what you do it always tries to use the swap file even if you have spare RAM left. So what you do is you use 1 Gig of RAM and create a virtual hard drive in the memory, you then make your swap file sit on this virtual hard drive. As a result, when your system starts writing to the swap file it is in fact writing to RAM so it's still super fast.
I'd still get a floppy and other stuff (graphics card etc) of course. Floppies have only one good use - booting your system from to get into dos

Posted by Hypnosis4U2NV on Saturday 13 October 2001 22:37

Nila, you know a good setting to make windows use more of your ram and less swap file?

I have 1 Gig AMD with 512MB pc133 Ram WinME..

Windows always leaves less than half that amount of memory available when I open a program that uses alot of resources.. I then have to close other apps..

Posted by Zwitex on Sunday 14 October 2001 13:53

Put the following in your "system.ini" file to make your computer use the swapfile, only when needed, i.e. when all physical memory has been used! My win386.sqp hasn't been used since 21st of september. I have 640MB in my system.

Works with Win98(SE)/ME only!

[386Enh]
ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1

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