Recording modes

With these settings you can adjust the audio quality when recording tracks to the HDD. Recordings made with higher bitrates use more space, reducing the total available space on the HDD.

Recording mode

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recording mode/

Possible recording

Explanation

 

 

 

bitrate

time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Higher

 

 

The audio signal is digitally recorded without any

audio

LPCM

Approx. 104 hours

compression.

quality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AAC(XP)

Approx. 1,230 hours

The audio is initially recorded as LPCM and converted to

 

 

 

128 kbps

AAC when this unit is in standby mode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AAC is a compression format which compresses the audio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

data into a smaller size. Audio quality and the amount of

 

 

 

AAC(SP)

Approx. 1,640 hours

tracks that can be recorded will differ depending on the

 

 

 

96 kbps

bitrate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Longer

recording AAC(LP)Approx. 2,460 hours 64 kbps

time

Recording mode settings at the time of purchase:

The recording mode for each selector is set to “LPCM” at the time of purchase. The recording mode for each selector can be set individually (page 34).

If you want to change the recording mode to AAC, please note the following:

Recordings made to this unit are initially recorded in LPCM, and then are converted to AAC. Therefore if you are making continuous, long recordings, the maximum amount of recordings you can make must fit within the LPCM limits for maximum possible recording time as described in the chart above. In the event that you are making many recordings, continue recording after the music data has been converted to AAC format (page 32, How recordings work).

[Note]

LPCM audio quality does not exceed the audio quality of the original recording.

Recording to HDD Basic Operations

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