Passages containing absolute silence (all zeros in binary) used to measure the noise floor of the player's internal circuitry.
If a CD player is unable to read the Table of Contents (TOC) or skips on specific discs, the spindle motor height or turntable centering may be off.
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Some legendary technicians have ripped the uncompressed, 16-bit/44.1kHz digital audio from the YEDS18 using a secure extraction drive (Plextor Premium). These .WAV files contain the exact 3T/11T pattern. However, burning them to a CD-R defeats the purpose, as explained.