Yamaha's marketing department is doing a good job to get publicity on their latest CD-RW drive the CRW-F1, besides the name of the drive that probably refers to Formula 1 because of the speed of the drive (44/24/44) they also keep releasing information about it.
Today they released a press release that gives more information on the drive it's audio qualities. Yahama introduces with this drive Advance Audio Master technology, the follow up of Yamaha's Audio Master technology.
When Advanced Audio Master Recording Mode is enabled, the system widens the lands and the pits during recording, significantly reducing jitter and improving audio and music recording quality to a level rivaling professionally prepared music CDs. |
Similar to VCR recorders that can record video at SP or LP modes, delivering the best picture quality through the SP mode or the longest recording time using the LP mode, Advanced Audio Master Quality Recording mode allows users to record CDs at the best (SP) quality possible. In fact, using Advanced Audio Master, Yamaha CRW-F1 Series CD recorders reduce jitter levels by up to 30%, drastically improving recording quality.
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Compared to the existing Advanced Audio Master Recording mode, the new Advanced Audio Master Quality Recording System provides the following enhancements:
In our review of Yamahas CRW3200 we could not determine a better sound quality when using the Audio Master technology, Advanced Audio Master technology might change this.
Source: Yahoo.com
