measured the Hegel Viking using my Audio Precision SYS2722 system. As this player doesn’t have digital inputs, I used test signals that I burned on a CD-R. I first used the to check the Viking’s error correction. It played the tracks with gaps in the data spiral up to 1mm in length without any problems, but there were audible glitches when the gap was longer than 1mm or when there were two 0.5mm gaps in succession. The Compact Disc standard, the so-called “Red Book,” requires that a
