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- From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
- Subject: Re: dcc
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 19:19:17 GMT
- Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
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-
- Found the Magazine.
-
- It's Stereo Review, November 1992.
-
- And it's PASC (Precision Adaptive Subband Coding), not PCSA.
-
- The magazine has a page on PASC technology, describing the
- method of omitting low-amplitude sounds in the spectral
- neighborhood of high-amplitude sounds, to scrimp on the
- amount of data being encoded.
-
- No mathematics, though, and the diagrams were a bit rough.
-
- Before I enroll at ASU in order to get library privileges
- so I can look this up, anyone know anything about documentation
- of the theory of PASC, or is it a Dutch State Secret?
-
- The question I hope to answer is whether DCC will be
- tolerant at all of data defects, CD has been successful in
- reconstructing huge gaps in the medium. Since PASC
- encoding uses 1/4th the total digital information of CD,
- I'd expect that CD's robustness has not been preserved.
-
- The magazine also carried pictures and/or ads for Optimus
- and Technics DCC decks. The Optimus DCT-2000 is apparently
- available at the your local RadioShyster. The Philips and
- Technics have bizarrely similar frontpanel configuratons;
- I'd like to see comparison stats for the two.
-
- And where the heck are the PORTABLES? :-)
-
- --Blair
- "Beats me."
-
- Appendix
- --------
-
- Some hard data on the Philips DCC900 (from a prototype
- they gave to SR):
-
- Box:
- ---
- 17x11x5.5", 20 lbs.(9kg), $799 MSRP.
-
- Motor:
- ---
- Fast-wind time: 148 s.
- Speed error: analog: -0.38%
- digital: negligible
- Wow/Flutter: analog: 0.11%
- digital: negligible
-
-
- Digital Playback:
- ---
- Freq. response: +0.02, -0.04 dB; over 16Hz - 20kHz
- Channel Sep.: @1kHz: 93.9 dB
- @10kHz: 93.9 dB
- S/N: A-weighted: 99.3 dB
- not 93.6 dB
- THD+N @1kHz: 0.003%
- Linearity error @-90dB: +3.7dB
-
- Digital Record/Playback:
- ---
- Freq. response: +0.02, -0.06 dB; over 16Hz - 20kHz
- Channel Sep.: @1kHz: 103.9 dB
- @10kHz: 101.4 dB
- S/N: A-weighted: 91.5 dB
- not 87.2 dB
- THD+N @1kHz: 0.003%
- Linearity error @-90dB: +10.3 dB
-
- Analog Playback:
- ---
- Freq. response: +1.6, -0.2 dB; over 32Hz - 18kHz
- Channel Sep.: @1kHz: 46.1 dB
- @10kHz: 47.1 dB
- S/N: A-weighted: 57.1 dB
- not 53.1 dB
- Dolby B (no wt): 56.7 dB
- Dolby C (no wt): 62.5 dB
- THD+N @1kHz: 0.64%
-
- No specs given for analog recording.
-
- The reviewer indicated that these analog specs are comparable
- to "good but not spectacular" analog-only cassette decks, and
- that the D/A linearity errors are high by CD standards but may
- be ignorable due to the perceptual tricks performed by PASC.
-
-