Together with the MD(Mini Disc) system, the DCC(Digital Compact Casset
te) system is considered a successor to the ACC(Analogue Compact Casse
tte) system. In the system which we developed, a new architec ture for
signal processing is adopted to apply for the magnetic heads which ha
ve the wrong frequency characteristics caused by coating processes. Th
is paper describes newly developed technology includes the above archi
tecture:head technology, head amplifier technology, digital-equalizing
technology, data-detecting technology, errorcorrecting technology, an
d PASC(Precision Adaptive Subband Coding) technology.