Two new signal space detectors designed to take advantage of maximum t
ransition run (MTR) coded modulation are presented. These detectors ar
e designed to perform across a wide range of densities and offer lower
error rates than a 3D-110 detector at low densities while requiring o
nly modest increases in complexity. The first scheme, 2D-121 alpha emp
loys an equalization constraint that reduces low density noise correla
tion relative to the 3D-110 target. The second uses a 3D-110 detector
but includes a linear noise predictive filter to reduce the effective
noise between the minimum distance sequences, Analysis and simulation
results indicate that the two detectors perform equally well in terms
of bit error rate.