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John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
From the compnay's home page: 'When a CD drive misses a bit, it “fills
the hole” with a synthetic bit of data called ECC (Error Correction
Codes). This is done to prevent the listener from hearing gaps of silence on misreads.'
This is incorrect. With what are called C1 errors -- around 10/second
on a typical disc, more on a damaged disc or a DualDisc -- the original
data are exactly reconstructed. With C2 errors -- rare -- the
original data cannot be reconstructed and the gap is covered with
interpolated data. With more extreme errors -- extremely rare, I
checked errors once on 100 discs without finding one of these -- there
is a gap of silence.
When I master a Stereophile recording to CD-R, I check the incidence
of all three of these errors using the Plextools program that comes
with some Plextor CD drives. Pressing plants will not accept discs
that have even one uncorrectable errors nor will they take discs
with an C1/C2 error rate that has >200 errors/second. A typical
burn has no C2 errors and around 3000 C1 errors on the entire disc,
ie, <1/second.
So if the manufacturer of this player doesn not comprehend the
manner in which the data are stored on an optical disc and how
coding redundancy is used to enable perfect correction of C1 errors,
what are the chances of him designing a revolutionary product to
extract those data?
Perhaps the memeory player does sound good -- I haven't yet heard
it -- but if it does, I suspect that it is not for the reasons given
by the designer.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/critics/messages/24763.html
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
From the compnay's home page: 'When a CD drive misses a bit, it “fills
the hole” with a synthetic bit of data called ECC (Error Correction
Codes). This is done to prevent the listener from hearing gaps of silence on misreads.'
This is incorrect. With what are called C1 errors -- around 10/second
on a typical disc, more on a damaged disc or a DualDisc -- the original
data are exactly reconstructed. With C2 errors -- rare -- the
original data cannot be reconstructed and the gap is covered with
interpolated data. With more extreme errors -- extremely rare, I
checked errors once on 100 discs without finding one of these -- there
is a gap of silence.
When I master a Stereophile recording to CD-R, I check the incidence
of all three of these errors using the Plextools program that comes
with some Plextor CD drives. Pressing plants will not accept discs
that have even one uncorrectable errors nor will they take discs
with an C1/C2 error rate that has >200 errors/second. A typical
burn has no C2 errors and around 3000 C1 errors on the entire disc,
ie, <1/second.
So if the manufacturer of this player doesn not comprehend the
manner in which the data are stored on an optical disc and how
coding redundancy is used to enable perfect correction of C1 errors,
what are the chances of him designing a revolutionary product to
extract those data?
Perhaps the memeory player does sound good -- I haven't yet heard
it -- but if it does, I suspect that it is not for the reasons given
by the designer.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/critics/messages/24763.html