IEC 60098:1987

FOREWORD
PREFACE
Clause
1 Scope
2 Object
SECTION ONE - GENERAL
3 Definitions
4 Units and symbols
5 Drawings
6 Scales for graphical presentation of data
SECTION TWO - COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN ANALOGUE AUDIO DISK
              RECORDS AND REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT
7 The disk
8 The groove
9 Label information
10 Recording and reproducing characteristics
11 Reproducing equipment
SECTION THREE - METHODS OF MEASURING THE CHARACTERISTICS
                OF REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT FOR ANALOGUE
                AUDIO DISK RECORDS
12 Information required from manufacturers of record playing
   units
13 Conditions of measurement
14 Methods of measurement
FIGURES
APPENDIX A - Test records for wow and flutter
APPENDIX B - Measurement of signal/rumble ratio
APPENDIX C - Examples of test records for the measurement
             of channel sensitivity (Sub-clause 14.5),
             channel unbalance (Sub-clause 14.6),
             separation (Sub-clause 14.7), signal response
             (Sub-clause 14.8.1) and separation response
             (Sub-clause 14.8.2)
APPENDIX D - Tracking ability (Sub-clause 14.9), Methods
             A, B and C)

Applies to professional and domestic reproducing equipment for analogue audio disk records comprising the reproducing pickup and drive systems for the record. Specifies the parameters which are necessary to ensure compatibility between analogue audio disk records and the corresponding reproducing equipment. Lists and defines the most important parameters affecting their performance and establishes agreed methods of measurement for these parameters.