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From: kend@tekig.UUCP (Ken Dobyns)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Question about CD's
Message-ID: <2118@tekig.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 13:25:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 13:25:55 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 03:22:25 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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I have a question for the readers of this newsgroup which I hope will
not rekindle some feud which has just settled down.

I recently journeyed to the local high end stereo store for my first look
at the CD's.  After getting the necessary sales pitch extolling the virtues
of the machines, including the claim that the disks were virtually
indestructable, I listened to their demo mid-priced Sony.  Every 10-15 seconds
or so there would be a void in the music, just a brief moment of silence, 
almost as if the machine lost a bit of information.  The salesman then proceded
to blame the problem on the scratched (yet still indestructable) disk he was
playing.  My question is whether the problem was indeed with the disk (it really was scratched up), or if it is something inherent in the machines themselves.

Thanks in advance,
Ken Dobyns  Tektronix, Beaverton OR