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CD Read Errors--Rare?

In the latest issue of The Absolute Sound on p. 131, Robert Harley claims that errors in a CD player's bit stream are rare. His argument is that an error in the first bit in the sample would throw the amplitude off by half, resulting in "a very loud click." Since we don't hear loud clicks during playback, there must not be many first bit errors, which means there must not be many error at all.

Here is my question: Since the sample is only 1/44,100 of a second long, and speaker diaphrams do not react instantaneously to signal changes, would the "click" end up being inaudible?
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Hartley's claim was that even though the sample is only 1/44100 of a second long, if the error occurred at a point where there was a major shift in the sound (my words) it would be translated as a click. The click would be audible. If that is the case, the question would be ... how often do your hear clicks on CD playback? I can't remember hearing even one anytime in recent memory.

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