[Mike Rivers[_2_]]

On 8/7/2018 5:04 PM, wrote:
so what you are saying is that even the fancy "linear tracking" tables that had zero tracking error across the entire disc, would still suffer with this "feature" of worse performance on the inner tracks.

It's not exactly the same thing, but functionally, it's like losing
headroom as you move toward the inner grooves. Because the noise floor
is relatively quiet, with a lower maximum level before distortion, you
have less dynamic range available. You may think that's not a big deal
since most pop music is cut with less than 6 dB of dynamic range, but
they do that so they can take advantage of the maximum level and make
everything loud. But try to do that close to the center of the disk, and
you end up with distortion.

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