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From: tomp@vsi1.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky )
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: CD error rate displays
Keywords: CD error meter correct
Message-ID: <899@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 88 01:21:43 GMT
References: <17620@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <800@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: tomp@vsi1.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky (240))
Organization: Vicom Systems Inc. San Jose, Cal.
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In article <800@cbnews.ATT.COM> btk@cbnews.ATT.COM (Bryan T. Korff) writes:
>In article <17620@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) writes:
>>
>>     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.
>>					John Nagle
>
>I "read an article" reporting on a CD player that did give some
>kind of read-out of error correction.  The player was on display
>at one of the Consumer Electronics Shows.  The interesting point?
>The number went UP on subsequent playbacks of the same CD.  Maybe
>that is why you don't see this on home units.
>
>"Perfect Sound Forever"

  To qoute from Stereophile magazine, March '87, p. 31:
"I suggested he (Wayne Green, moron and publisher of Digital Audio mag)
ask Stan (Curtis, of Cambridge Audio: VERY expensive CD players) to
demonstrate, with his machine's error correction readout, the fact that
CD's wear out a little with each play - 1's and 0's sliding off the
disc into thin air."

The author is Sam Tellig.

If this is indeed the case, I'm sure anyone/everyone involved in that
industry is reluctant to advertise it.

"Perf ct Soun  Fo ever"  :-(