Servo circuit for a signal reproducing apparatus

摘要

A servo circuit for a signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals from a record medium such as a disc utilizing an optical pickup, wherein a variable gain amplifier is arranged in a servo loop between a pickup and an actuator so that the pickup is caused to track a signal track in accordance with a servo error signal produced by the variable gain amplifier. A playback condition of a disc is discriminated by detecting the number of errors in a signal reproduced from a recorded signal on the disc by the pickup, and a gain of the variable gain amplifier is controlled by the discrimination output so that the variation of the servo error signal caused by a difference in reflectance between individual discs is eliminated and a loop gain appropriate to an individual disc is automatically set.