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In article <367C3063.31B20018@tdv.aus.org>,
Kent Spraggett  <kent@tdv.aus.org> wrote:
>Richard D Pierce wrote:
> 
>> We would again point Mr. CHunk to texts suuch as Pohlmann's "Principles of
>> Digital Audio," Chapter 5 and Chapter 9. There he can learn, hopefully,
>> that what he thinks and what he is so sur of is simply not correct.
>
>who's to say the book in itself is corect? 

Mr. Spraggett, Mr. Chung's claim is that "audio CD players have no error
correction." This is not a claim of preference or of sound or of any other
such thing. He is making an assertion as if it ere technical fact. Nowhere
in the cited references are there claims f whether it sounds good or bad,
rather it is a description of the process of reading data from a CD,
decoding it, applying the deinterleave process and presenting the
recovered and error corrected audio data to the next stage in the playback
process. Don't like Pohlmann? Try the Phillips Red book standard for CD
playback, which says exactly the same thing. If you don't follow the Red
book standard, and, by extension, Pohlmann's description, you will be
utterly unable to read CD's. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a mketter
of an estblished technical standard that you MUST follow if you are to get
ANY data of a CD.

As such, it is a direct refutation of Mr. Chung's technical claims. Have
YOU references to support his assertions and refute the Phillips Red Book
standard and Pohlmann's escription? If so, you have evidence to suggest
that NO CD player in the worlkd can read a single bit of data from a CD.
Wann advance such an assertion?

>otherwise why would people bother with 96khz or hdcd and all that? 

Uh, lemme see: to make more money? Magic? Insecurity? Because some wag at
a magazine who can think out of his own way pontificated so.

You would do well to read the thread more carefully.

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