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From: jphalter@ihuxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD Skipping?
Message-ID: <379@ihuxb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 11:58:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 11 11:58:07 1983
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Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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I have heard rumors that CD's have been tested with a 1/8" strip of electricians
tape on the disc with no audible effect. I tried to reproduce this with my 
player and got a horrible mess. The sound would "drop-out" once per revolution
of the disc, making it unlistenable. The tracking system also responded by
"skipping" tracks, since it apparently could not sync across this kind of
damage.

Question: Has anybody else out there detected this? Is this normal or are
some players capable of correcting a 1/8" gap?  

Related Issue: To date, I have purchased only one defective CD. (Exchanged
by the record store after they verified the defect, of course) This CD was
scratched  pretty badly in an area about the size of a dime. My player responded with "drop-outs" once per revolution. Also, another player of different
manufacture did the same thing. It sounds to me like CD's are not all that
immune to scratches (gross scratches, that is) and dirty discs as the 
magazines claim.

So what's the story here, are the magizines feeding us a bunch of lies or can
some players really track through large disc defects. My experience says the
players can't. Anyone know?