♫ Episode #57 – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Optical Discs

Andy Doe joins us to take a close look at optical discs: CDs, DVDs, Blu-Rays, but also HDCDs, DVD-As, and more. I bet you didn’t know how many kinds of optical disc there are…

“It is the betamax of audio formats…”

Show notes:

• Optical disc – Wikipedia
• Compact disc – Wikipedia
• Compact Disc Digital Audio – Wikipedia
• Close to the Edge
• Nyquist frequency – Wikipedia
• 44,100 Hz – Wikipedia
• Error detection and correction
• Pulse-code modulation
• Super Audio CD
• Hybrid disc
• DVD-Audio
• Mode Records DVD-A releases
• High Fidelity Pure Audio (Blu-Ray Audio)
• HDCD
• Grateful Dead
• Cambridge Audio 651BD
• Compressed audio optical disc (MP3 CD)

Our next tracks:

• Kirk: Miles Davis: Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings, 1951-1956
• Doug: Slim Gaillard: Slim Gaillard Rides Again

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Special Guest: Andy Doe.

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