EN IEC 60098:2020

Analogue audio disk records and reproducing equipment

IEC 60098:2020 applies to analogue audio disk records and the corresponding professional and domestic reproducing equipment. It excludes amplifiers and loudspeakers, methods of measurement for which can be found in IEC 60268-3, IEC 60268-5, IEC 60268­21 and IEC 60268-22. IEC 60098:2020 specifies the characteristics that are necessary to ensure compatibility between analogue audio disk records and the corresponding reproducing equipment. It also lists and defines the most important characteristics affecting the performance of reproducing equipment, and establishes agreed methods of measurement for these characteristics. IEC 60098:2020 cancels and replaces the third edition published in 1987. This edition constitutes a full revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition: a) addition of a tolerance on groove width.

Analoge Schallplatten und Abspielgeräte

Disques audio analogiques et appareils de lecture

L'IEC 60098:2020 s'applique aux disques audio analogiques et aux appareils de lecture correspondants à usage professionnel et grand public. En sont exclus les amplificateurs et les haut-parleurs dont les méthodes de mesure peuvent être consultées respectivement dans l’IEC 60268-3, l’IEC 60268-5, l’IEC 60268­21 et l’IEC 60268-22. Le présent document spécifie les caractéristiques qui sont nécessaires pour garantir la compatibilité entre les enregistrements sur disque analogique et l’appareil de lecture correspondant. Il énumère et définit également les caractéristiques les plus importantes qui affectent les performances de l’appareil de lecture et établit des méthodes convenues pour la mesure de ces caractéristiques. L'IEC 60098:2020 annule et remplace la troisième édition parue en 1987. Cette édition constitue une révision complète. Cette édition inclut les modifications techniques majeures suivantes par rapport à l'édition précédente: a) ajout d'une tolérance relative à la largeur du sillon.

Analogni zvočni diski in oprema za reproduciranje (IEC 60098:2020)

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 12-Mar-2020
• Withdrawal Date: 13-Feb-2023
• ICS: 33.160.30 - Audio systems
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 100X - Audio, video and multimedia systems and equipment and related sub-systems
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 100 - IEC_TC_100
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 13-Mar-2020
• Completion Date: 13-Mar-2020
• Ref Project: SIST EN IEC 60098:2020 - Analogue audio disk records and reproducing equipment (IEC 60098:2020)

Relations

• Replaces: HD 337 S3:1989 - Analogue audio disk records and reproducing equipment
• Effective Date: 17-Mar-2020

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN IEC 60098:2020
01-november-2020
Nadomešča:
SIST HD 337 S3:1999
Analogni zvočni diski in oprema za reproduciranje (IEC 60098:2020)
Analogue audio disk records and reproducing equipment (IEC 60098:2020)
Analoge Schallplatten und Abspielgeräte (IEC 60098:2020)
Disques audio analogiques et appareils de lecture (IEC 60098:2020)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 60098:2020
ICS:
33.160.30 Avdio sistemi Audio systems
SIST EN IEC 60098:2020 en,fr,de

2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 60098
NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2020
ICS 33.160.30 Supersedes HD 337 S3:1989 and all of its amendments
and corrigenda (if any)
English Version
Analogue audio disk records and reproducing equipment
(IEC 60098:2020)

Disques audio analogiques et appareils de lecture Analoge Schallplatten und Abspielgeräte

(IEC 60098:2020) (IEC 60098:2020)

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2020-02-14. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC

Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC

Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation

under the responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the

same status as the official versions.

CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the

Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,

Turkey and the United Kingdom.
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© 2020 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.

Ref. No. EN IEC 60098:2020 E
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EN IEC 60098:2020 (E)
European foreword

The text of document 100/3261/CDV, future edition 4 of IEC 60098, prepared by IEC/TC 100 "Audio,

video and multimedia systems and equipment" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and

approved by CENELEC as EN IEC 60098:2020.
The following dates are fixed:

• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at national (dop) 2020-11-14

level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement

• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2023-02-14

document have to be withdrawn

This document supersedes HD 337 S3:1989 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of

patent rights. CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

Endorsement notice

The text of the International Standard IEC 60098:2020 was approved by CENELEC as a European

Standard without any modification.
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EN IEC 60098:2020 (E)
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content

constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For

undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)

applies.

NOTE 1 Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant

EN/HD applies.

NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:

www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60050-806 1996 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - - -
Chapter 806: Recording and reproduction of
audio and video
+ A1 2001 - -
+ A2 2018 - -
IEC 60263 1982 Scales and sizes for plotting frequency - -
characteristics and polar diagrams
IEC 60386 1972 Method of measurement of speed fluctuations - -
in sound recording and reproducing equipment
IEC 60417 - Graphical symbols for use on equipment. - -
Index, survey and compilation of the single
sheets.
IEC 61672-1 2013 Electroacoustics - Sound level meters - Part 1: EN 61672-1 2013
Specifications
IEC 62368-1 2018 Audio/video, information and communication EN IEC 62368-1 2020
technology equipment - Part 1: Safety
requirements
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IEC 60098
Edition 4.0 2020-01
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Analogue audio disk records and reproducing equipment
INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
ICS 33.160.30 ISBN 978-2-8322-7721-8

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD ........................................................................................................................... 5

1 Scope ............................................................................................................................. 7

2 Normative references ...................................................................................................... 7

3 Terms and definitions ..................................................................................................... 7

4 General ........................................................................................................................... 8

4.1 Scales for graphical presentation of data ............................................................... 8

4.2 Scales for frequency characteristics ....................................................................... 8

5 The disk .......................................................................................................................... 8

5.1 Types of disk records .............................................................................................. 8

5.2 Dimensions of disks ............................................................................................... 9

5.3 Unbalance of disks ............................................................................................... 10

5.4 Direction of rotation .............................................................................................. 11

5.5 Direction of recording ........................................................................................... 11

5.6 Speed of rotation .................................................................................................. 11

6 The groove .................................................................................................................... 11

6.1 Direction of groove modulation .............................................................................. 11

6.2 Arrangement of stereophonic channels ................................................................ 12

6.2.1 Channel orientation ....................................................................................... 12

6.2.2 Channel phasing ........................................................................................... 12

6.2.3 Channel levels .............................................................................................. 12

6.2.4 Channel polarity ............................................................................................ 12

6.3 Groove dimensions .............................................................................................. 12

6.4 Lead-in groove ..................................................................................................... 12

6.5 Outer diameter of recorded surface ...................................................................... 12

6.6 Eccentricity of groove spiral ................................................................................. 12

6.7 Marker space ........................................................................................................ 13

6.8 Lead-out groove ................................................................................................... 13

6.9 Finishing groove ................................................................................................... 13

7 Label information .......................................................................................................... 13

8 Recording and reproducing characteristics .................................................................... 13

8.1 Recording characteristic ....................................................................................... 13

8.1.1 Standard recording characteristic .................................................................. 13

8.1.2 Recording chain tolerances ........................................................................... 14

8.2 Reproducing characteristic .................................................................................... 14

8.2.1 Standard reproducing characteristic ............................................................... 14

8.2.2 Reproducing chain tolerances ....................................................................... 15

9 Reproducing equipment ................................................................................................. 15

9.1 Speed of rotation .................................................................................................. 15

9.2 Automatic pickup lifting ......................................................................................... 15

9.3 Reproducing stylus ............................................................................................... 15

9.3.1 Clearances .................................................................................................... 15

9.3.2 Included angle (spherical styli only)............................................................... 15

9.3.3 Stylus rake (non-spherical styli only) ............................................................. 16

9.4 Arrangement of stereophonic channels ................................................................. 16

9.4.1 Channel orientation ....................................................................................... 16

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9.4.2 Channel phasing ........................................................................................... 16

9.4.3 Channel gain ................................................................................................. 16

9.4.4 Channel polarity ............................................................................................ 16

9.5 Interchangeability of pickup cartridges ................................................................. 16

9.5.1 Dimensions ................................................................................................... 16

9.5.2 Colour coding of connecting wires between pickup cartridge and pickup

arm ................................................................................................................ 17

9.5.3 Colour coding or marking of pickup cartridge terminals ................................. 17

10 Measurements ............................................................................................................... 17

10.1 Standard measurement conditions ........................................................................ 17

10.1.1 General ......................................................................................................... 17

10.1.2 Environment .................................................................................................. 18

10.1.3 Electric power supply ..................................................................................... 18

10.1.4 Pickup operation ............................................................................................ 18

10.1.5 Test records .................................................................................................. 18

10.2 Methods of measurement ...................................................................................... 18

10.2.1 General ......................................................................................................... 18

10.2.2 Maximum apparent power consumption ........................................................ 19

10.2.3 Mean deviation from rated speed ................................................................... 19

10.2.4 Wow and flutter ............................................................................................. 20

10.2.5 Maximum start time to reach actual or rated speed ...................................... 20

10.2.6 Signal/rumble ratio ........................................................................................ 20

10.2.7 Signal/hum ratio ............................................................................................ 21

10.2.8 Channel sensitivity at 1 000 Hz .................................................................... 22

10.2.9 Channel unbalance at 1 000 Hz (stereo use only) .......................................... 22

10.2.10 Separation at 1 000 Hz (stereo use only) ...................................................... 23

10.2.11 Frequency response ...................................................................................... 23

10.2.12 Tracking ability .............................................................................................. 24

11 Information required from manufacturers of record playing units ................................... 25

11.1 General ................................................................................................................. 25

11.2 Identification ......................................................................................................... 25

11.3 Structure .............................................................................................................. 25

11.3.1 Pickup cartridge ............................................................................................ 25

11.3.2 Drive system .................................................................................................. 25

11.3.3 Space requirements for unmounted units ....................................................... 26

11.3.4 Operational modes ........................................................................................ 26

12 Performance claims ....................................................................................................... 26

12.1 General ................................................................................................................. 26

12.2 Maximum apparent power consumption of the unit ................................................ 26

12.3 Speed of rotation .................................................................................................. 26

12.4 Signal/rumble ratio ................................................................................................ 27

12.5 Signal/hum ratio .................................................................................................... 27

12.6 Channel sensitivity at 1 000 Hz ............................................................................. 27

12.7 Channel unbalance at 1 000 Hz (stereo use only) ................................................. 27

12.8 Separation at 1 000 Hz (stereo use only) .............................................................. 27

12.9 Frequency response ............................................................................................. 27

12.10 Tracking ability ..................................................................................................... 27

Annex A (informative) Multipurpose test records .................................................................. 28

A.1 Available multi-purpose test record ....................................................................... 28

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A.2 Multi-purpose test record no longer available new but which may still be

used ..................................................................................................................... 28

Annex B (normative) Test records for wow and flutter .......................................................... 30

Annex C (normative) Measurement of signal/rumble ratio .................................................... 31

C.1 Measuring instrument............................................................................................ 31

C.2 Test record ........................................................................................................... 31

C.3 Attenuation curve ................................................................................................. 31

Annex D (informative) Examples of test records for the measurement of channel

sensitivity, channel unbalance, separation, signal response, and separation response ....... 33

Annex E (informative) Tracking ability .................................................................................. 35

E.1 Test records for tracking ability ............................................................................. 35

E.2 Examples of test records no longer available new but which may still be

used ..................................................................................................................... 35

Figure 1 – Dimensions for record types 30xx and 25xx ........................................................... 9

Figure 2 – Dimensions for record type 17xx .......................................................................... 10

Figure 3 – Groove ................................................................................................................. 11

Figure 4 – Recording and reproducing characteristics ........................................................... 14

Figure 5 – Pickup cartridge ................................................................................................... 17

Figure C.1 – Attenuation curve for rumble meter ................................................................... 32

Table 1 – Standard types of disk ............................................................................................. 8

Table 2 – Colour coding of connecting wires ......................................................................... 17

Table 3 – Rated and measured speeds ................................................................................. 19

Table 4 – Relation of time t to actual speed .......................................................................... 20

Table 5 – Identification ......................................................................................................... 25

Table 6 – Pickup cartridge data ............................................................................................ 25

Table 7 – Drive system data ................................................................................................. 25

Table 8 – Operational modes ................................................................................................ 26

Table B.1 – Examples of test records that may be used ........................................................ 30

Table C.1 – Test records for measuring signal/rumble ratio ................................................... 31

Table D.1 – Examples of test records that may be used ........................................................ 33

Table E.1 – Low-frequency tracking ability – Method A in 10.2.12 ......................................... 35

Table E.2 – Low to middle frequency sweep tracking ability .................................................. 35

Table E.3 – High-frequency tracking ability ........................................................................... 35

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ANALOGUE AUDIO DISK RECORDS AND REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT
FOREWORD

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rights. IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

International Standard IEC 60098 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 100: Audio,

video and multimedia systems and equipment.

This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition published in 1987. This edition

constitutes a full revision.

This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous

edition:
a) addition of a tolerance on groove width.
The text of this International Standard is based on the following documents:
CDV Report on voting
100/3261/CDV 100/3331/RVC

Full information on the voting for the approval of this International Standard can be found in the

report on voting indicated in the above table.

This document has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

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The committee has decided that the contents of this document will remain unchanged until the

stability date indicated on the IEC website under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to

the specific document. At this date, the document will be
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
A bilingual version of this publication may be issued at a later date.
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ANALOGUE AUDIO DISK RECORDS AND REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT
1 Scope

This document applies to analogue audio disk records and the corresponding professional and

domestic reproducing equipment. It excludes amplifiers and loudspeakers, methods of

measurement for which can be found in IEC 60268-3, IEC 60268-5, IEC 60268-21 and
IEC 60268-22 .

This document specifies the characteristics that are necessary to ensure compatibility between

analogue audio disk records and the corresponding reproducing equipment.

It also lists and defines the most important characteristics affecting the performance of

reproducing equipment, and establishes agreed methods of measurement for these
characteristics
2 Normative references

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content

constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies.

For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any

amendments) applies.

IEC 60050-806:1996, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) – Part 806: Recording

and reproduction of audio and video
IEC 60050-806:1996/AMD1:2001
IEC 60050-806:1996/AMD2:2018

IEC 60263:1982, Scales and sizes for plotting frequency characteristics and polar diagrams

IEC 60386:1972, Method of measurement of speed fluctuations in sound recording and

reproducing equipment

IEC 60417, Graphical symbols for use on equipment (available at http://www.graphical-

symbols.info/equipment)
Electroacoustics – Sound level meters – Part 1: Specifications
IEC 61672-1:2013,

IEC 62368-1:2018, Audio/video, information and communication technology equipment – Part 1:

Safety requirements
3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in IEC 60050-806 and the

following apply.

ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following

addresses:
• ISO Online browsing platform: available at https://www.iso.org/obp
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Under preparation. Stage at the time of publication: IEC CDV 60268-22:2019.
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• IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
3.1
rated value

value of a quantity used for specification purposes, established for a specified set of operating

conditions of a component, device, equipment, or system

Note 1 to entry: The rated value is normally the value stated by the manufacturer.

[SOURCE: IEC 60050-151:2001, 151-16-08, modified – Note 1 to entry has been added.]

3.2
terminated, adj

connected to a specified impedance required for correct

operation or for specified test conditions

Note 1 to entry: 'Specified test conditions' can include open-circuit and short-circuit.

4 General
4.1 Scales for graphical presentation of data

Linear or logarithmic scales are recommended for graphical presentation. Linear decibel

scales are equivalent to logarithmic scales. Other kinds of scale, such as double logarithmic,

should be avoided. When using decibel scales, the zero reference should, if possible, be the

rated value. In those cases, where each of the scales refers directly to physical units, it is

recommended to avoid a combination of linear and logarithmic scales.

Where quantities represented by the axes are of the same kind, it is recommended that the

same unit length be used for both.
Linear scales with remote zero point
...