On Saturday 15 December 2001 11:31 pm, Paul Davis wrote: > >Even the Alesis MasterLink buffers to disk first. Can you say 'Buffer > >Underrun"? Real-time burning is hard to do right, without a faster-than > >real-time buffered source. Of course, BURN-Proof helps.
> sorry, but this is not true. go and get a tascam dedicated cdrw > unit. it works 100% of the time, perfectly, with a s/pdif real time > input. at least, the one i have access to does. it can only do "audio > time" burning, but given the dedicated nature of the beast, thats > ok. i very much doubt that its internal mechanism is significantly > different than the one in my yamaha computer-mounted burner. Pro level equipment (such as that first Marantz burner) certainly is a little different from consumer grade stuff. Mechanism is but half the battle -- the Panasonic SV3700 and ill-fated SV3200, for example, had identical mechanisms, but substantially different electronics. In fact, the SV3200 was buyable for less than the price of three shop visits for an SV3700 -- I swapped many a 3200 mechanism into a 3700. The 3200 had crippled S/PDIF, but the 3700 had AES/EBU. I had nine 3700's in constant use; and never did get any satisfaction from the service centers. Broken machines sent for service were returned broken -- and SV3200's went on sale. So I bought a dozen, swapped mechanisms, and dumpstered the carcases and the old 3700 mechanisms. > the technique to implement this is very simple, and even cdrecord does > it: you just buffer N seconds of the real time source before you start > the burn. And hope that your computer doesn't have a latency 'burp' lasting longer than the buffer. However, I'll concede the point that this is, indeed, the way to do it. A large FIFO works wonders. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11
