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| Posted by | Dennis |
| Posted on | 25/08/02 13:44 |
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 | Review: Yamaha CRW-F1E Reviewer: G@M3FR3@K Provided by: Yamaha Firmware: version 1.0b Production date: June 2002 |
If you've followed our website the last couple of weeks you will undoubtedly have noticed some reports on Yamaha's latest recorder, the CRW-F1 drive. This drive promises some very innovative features and is, in our opinion, one of the most anticipated/hyped recorders of this year. During some months Yamaha has revealed pieces of their puzzle showing the drive and its abilities to the public.
Yamaha has always been known for their innovative features (take for instance their previous model, the CRW3200E drive which had a special audio write method (Audio Master Quality Recording) and was one of the first drives to support the 'Mount Rainier' format). This new CRW-F1 model continues that tradition in every way. New features include 'DiscT@2', 'Advanced Audio Master Quality Recording' and 'Full CAV Writing'. Besides that the Yamaha CRW-F1 drive supports high write and read speeds of 44X and, more important, re-write speeds of 24X. Sounds interesting? Well read on to see what these features mean and what we think of this new Yamaha drive!
Test Machine:
For the tests we'll be using the following configuration:
Hardware:
- Motherboard: ASUS K7V
- Processor: AMD Athlon 700Mhz
- RAM: 256MB (PC133)
- GFX: ASUS V8200 (GeForce 3 Ti200)
- Hard Disks: DiamondMax 40GB & 30GB (7200rpm)
- IDE Controller: PCI UDMA100 Controller
- USB Controller: NEC USB 2.0 Controller
System set-up:
The Yamaha CRW-F1 was set-up as MASTER on the (onboard) Secondary IDE Channel and, as you can see, identifies itself as "YAMAHA CRW-F1E". DMA (Direct Memory Access) was enabled and Autorun was disabled for every device. All drives (including the Yamaha CRW-F1) support UDMA33. The other drives that are listed are running on the PCI UDMA Controller.
Used Software:
The Windows XP Professional operating system is installed on our test machine. We'll be using the following software to perform the various tests:
- Ahead InCD v3.31.0
- Ahead Nero Burning Rom v5.5.9.0
- Ahead Nero CD Speed v0.85e beta
- Ahead Nero InfoTool v1.02
- Elaborate Bytes CloneCD v4.0.1.10
- Exact Audio Copy v0.9 beta 4
- G&M CDR Identifier v1.63
On the next page we'll take a look at the package of the Yamaha CRW-F1...
Conclusion
:4Anyfinally more than a 2MB buffer on a fast drive.
How exactly does the TDK/Lite-on 48x24x48 drive compare to this Yamaha drive??? Most importantly, is the TDK/Lite-on drive able to copy all copy protections without the 'amplify week sectors" option of clone-cd??? I would love to se a review of the TDK drive with exactly the same benchmarks and comparisons… I am going to buy the TDK or this Yamaha… Pleas help me, and the rest of us make up our minds!
Thanks,
KGB_22
but nvm ... here we go again o'.'o
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I have made even a recording on single speed using the Yamaha, because i could not believe its dissappointment but with no better result.
I naturally first ripped the audio with plextool's 1.15 new DAE extraction, because it's better than EAC's and made recordings on Platinum's 700 MB CD-r's
on 50 piece spindle costing only 35 Euro cents a piece.
The Plextor's recording were very little bit lighter in sound-quality, but just as musical like the originals, but the Yamaha's were very much different in comparison with the original cd's and lacked musicality giving you that kind of specific digital sound.
Used Cd sources were, Badi Assad's "Rhythms" and Chessky's demonstration cd and Mariah Carey's "Butterfly".
So for the enthousiats among audiofreaks consider this comment as serious.
All the other qualities of cd-burning of the Yamaha is perfect according the tests on this site.
Great review site.
My compliments.
Highend_freak.
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