Re: What's the use of a 192 kHz sample rate?

"Eric Jacobsen" <eric.jacobsen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> And it wasn't disconnected, I think you just failed to
> recognize the connection.    You said:

>> There are a modest number of correctable and corrected
>> errors.

> What's "modest"?   This was right after you asserted the
> output "probably has less than one erroneous sample per
> full side (72 minutes)".

That is of course after correction.That's what you get at the output of a 
proper CD player - corrected data.

>   At 44kHz x 16 bit words that's
> a word error rate of ~5*10e-9 and a bit error rate of
> ~3*10e-10!  (Assuming a single bit error.)   That's
> either the most over-engineered audio system around or
> the error rate is much higher than you think (hint: it's
> the latter).    The raw error rate on optical media, even
> in pristine condition, is usually fairly high, in the Pe
> = 10e-3 region.    To me that's not "modest", and is the
> point to which I was responding.

You seem to think that the output of a CD player is taken right after the 
optical pickup. Not in this universe, it isn't.