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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: CD error rate displays
Keywords: CD error meter correct
Message-ID: <17620@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 7 Aug 88 16:40:29 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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     I have yet to see a CD player, even at the high end, which displays
error rate information.  At the very least, I'd like to know whenever
error correction was unsuccessful, since the logic tries to interpolate
something reasonable in such cases but the result is usually disappointing.
But this seems to be something that doesn't get put into players.  Given
all the blithering from some vendors about how their transport has better
bearings and suspension and such, I'd expect to see readouts demonstrating
that that was useful.  After all, if you're not getting any uncorrectable
errors and all the corrections are performed properly, no further improvement
in the digital portion of the system is possible.

					John Nagle