From: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale
Newsgroups: net.audio
Title: Re: NAD and digital ramblings
Article-I.D.: watcgl.251
Posted: Mon Mar 14 12:48:45 1983
Received: Tue Mar 15 00:54:13 1983
References: hou5e.280

There may be differences in the quality of digital audio disc players,
to be sure.  Certainly in the analog section, but perhaps the digital
part too.  I understand that the discs are recorded with an error-correcting
code, but that doesn't mean that all players will actually correct errors
properly - they may just use the previous sample again, or something equally
cheap and ugly.  However, I would guess that once you had a DAD player that
worked tolerably well at all, with all the "groove" tracking hardware,
that improving the sound quality would not be such a large additional cost,
and thus manufacturers would be more inclined to produce better hardware.
It's also true that many records being manufactured today sound pretty awful
on good equipment, but how many people have good equipment?  The majority of
the market for records doesn't care, so why bother?  The entire market
for DAD's will have disc-playing equipment better than most analog stuff
available today, so more people will be able to hear the difference,
and I hope this will be an incentive for higher-quality records to be
produced.