Compact Disc - The Inside Story

Articles by Glenn Baddeley

Melbourne Audio Club Inc., AUSTRALIA

The following nine articles on the technical details of the Compact Disc audio recording system were originally published as a series in the Melbourne Audio Club Inc. magazine MAC Audio News. The first article was in issue No. 156, November 1987 and the last in issue No. 190, December 1990. Glenn has been a member of the Melbourne Audio Club since 1987, and held the position of Do-It-Yourself Convenor in 4 club years, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1991/92 and 1992/93.

Articles in PDF format

• Part 1 - General Principles

• Part 2 - The Disc

• Part 3 - Data Format

• Part 4 - Sub-code

• Part 5 - Laser Tracking

• Part 6 - November 1989 News Update

• Part 7 - Digital to Analog Conversion

• Part 8 - Over-sampling and Filtering 

• Part 9 - Mythology

• Postscript One - 1996, Postscript Two - 1999, References

CD - The Inside Story, the articles and hand-drawn figures, and the PDF files that present the articles are Copyright © 1987-1989, 1990, 1996, 1999, 2005, 2009, 2017 by Glenn Baddeley.

Links to information about other digital disk technologies

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Created 5 April 2017, last updated 5 April 2017.

Formerly at http://home.pacific.net.au/~gnb/mac-cdis/, created 8 March 2002, last updated 8 December 2010