Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: Error Counts on CD - (nf) Message-ID: <2170@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 25-Feb-84 13:48:21 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.2170 Posted: Sat Feb 25 13:48:21 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 27-Feb-84 07:12:17 EST References: <5847@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 23 From: tynor@uiucuxc.UUCP Do you require a metering device on your turntable or cassette deck that displays tracking error, distortion etc.? (I agree that it is extremely useful to know these things, but usually your ear tells you something is wrong then you check out the equipment. Is there any reason why a CD player should have a capability that most analog devices lack?) Is there any reason that a CD player should produce sound better than most analog devices are capable of? :-) Turn the question around. Is there any reason that a turntable or cassette deck should contain equipment for monitoring tracking error or distortion? I'd say yes, but that it would be too expensive to include to be worthwhile. But adding a LED that indicated that interpolation was taking place on a CD player should be very cheap since the circuitry already knows that it is taking place, so there is no reason NOT to do it. If I owned a CD player, I'd like to know that the disc I bought is defective, even if I can't immediately hear the problem (maybe I'm not listening critically right now). On the other hand, if I could hear something that sounded strange, I'd like to know that it was due to a bad disc and not my CD player.