Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC

Your skeptisim is fine, but you should also consider that the Memory Player was not developed in a vacumme.

The MP developers knew about EAC, you have to consider that there is much more to the Memory Player than has been published about it. There are processes going on in the player after RUR which processes the data and helps create the Memory Player's sound.

As per optical transports like the Esoteric, yes they are dead in the water, Memory Play back is indeed better.

Steve those are big and bold claims. You have produced some very good and well respected products but you are forgetting exactly who you are dealing with. Nova Physics is indeed a new company but the men behind this company are anything but neophytes in the field of audio engineering.

The Memory Player is the first product from two 30+ year veterans of High End Audio, George Bischoff and Mark Porzilli.The Memory Player has only been "on the market" since November, 2006 and has already won 2 awards and
received 5 rave reviews in 3 magazines!

In their 20 year partnership at Melos they accomplished some very big things. Melos was successful in business with over 14,000 satisfied customers and dozens of products which were very highly rated at the time. In its 20 year history, Melos Audio garnered over 200 rave reviews from 30 countries, on six continents. Melos won Stereophile's"Product of the Year" for its legendary SHA-1 Headphone Amplifier and "Editor's Choice" in The Absolute Sound. The original Pipedreams won TAS' "Golden Ear" too.

Melos Audio products stayed on Stereophile's "Recommended Components" for an incredible TEN YEARS. Melos holds copyrights and US Patents for "Filament Drive" (SHA), "G2 Triode Drive" (High Current Triode Amplifiers), "Ultrasonic Noding" and "Cylindric Non-Parallelism" (the Pipedreams Loudspeakers)

Mark designed all of Melos Audio's solid state and vacuum tube products with George Bischoff from 1979-1999. He is also the designer of the original, award winning Pipedreams Loudspeakers.He is the designer of the new Scaena Line Source Loudspeakers as well.

The Pipedreams Loudspeakers received rave reviews from Harry Pearson of The Absolute Sound, and Jonathon Valin , also of TAS. The accomplishment of unifying over 100 drivers into a simple 2-way speaker with no nodes* was literally patentable. After the reviews,The Pipedreams also won the "Golden Ear" from The Absolute Sound.

Since 1979, while designing for Melos Audio and several OEM
products, George and Mark made strenuous efforts to refine the precision of clocks, which ultimately found their way into serving vacuum tubed DACs. Melos had several since the 14bit era, which were well received in both Stereophile and The Absolute Sound magazines.

George Bishoff on his own, after Melos designed the respected Gerorge Mark DAC which received a rave review from Stereotimes magazine before he changed directions to incorporate his DAC designs into the Nova Physics player being designed by his former partner Mark.

With Nova Physics these two man have been reunited to bring forth a new and radical improvement in the art and science of the music CD, Memory Playback,

Through the Memory Player you can compare Hard Drive playback vs playback from Memory and the Memory Playback sounds far superior to reading from the Hard Drive. There are still timing errors introduced by the way a hard drive locates data, and organizes that data for playback, and for that reason the Memory Player does not playback from the Hard Drive but instead loads the data into Memory.

The Memory Player was borne out of years of research and a through understanding of the problems of conventional computer based audio.

Steve that is an impressive background, but you are also discounting the fact that Mark Porzelli has an engineering background similar to yours, he and his father were involved in producing the LASER, and Mark had earned three master level degrees in engineering at age 14! Mark is no slouch in that department triple masters in Physics, Quantum Mechanics, and Chemistry!

Check out his bio he is a very intelligent man and is extrmely talented with audio engineering, just like you.

The best thing would be to do a shootout between your products and his. You may win they might win but one thing is certain you both are on the cutting edge of the new revolution in digital which will be hard drive based.

Audiofeil the fact that you sell on Audiogon makes your comments irrelevant how much experience in this field do you have I have a Memory Player on test currently what do you have? An Esoteric, and AMR? Both of these players no matter how good are not leading the field in what is the future.

I do sell conventional CD players as well, but for people looking for the best sounding digital it is products like Steve's the Memory Player and perhaps the VRS products.

Again Bill please elucidate as to your technical experience.

As per Steve and my understanding of timing errors, the Nova Physics people believe that there are timing errors from reading from the Hard drive and it is the way that the reassemble the data which makes the player work.

I am not the only one who believes in the sonic superiority of the Memory Player so does:

Clement Perry,
Greg Patan
Arnis Baglavis
Dave Clark
Harry Peason

and many others, so my feelings about the qualities of this technology are well documented.

Feedback is irrelevant, I do not sell on Audiogon, like you and other than a piece of trade in gear. Maybe I will follow your magnificent lead and create an Audiogon store so I can sell via the internet like you do.

I am surprised that you never chime in to support the lines you import, so you must be one of those importers who do it for the money, because obviously you don't have any passion for your products nor are you a real importer because you have no dealers selling your products other than yourself.

You are the worst kind of player, you import for yourself and don't do the work to legitimize your products by having a real distribution network just like a few others who follow the same practice.

I am a real dealer with four soon to be five sound rooms, $500,000.00 worth of gear on display and we are awaiting a pair of speakers for $44,000.00 so we will be close to $600,000.00 when our video room goes on line.

Do I believe in my products yes I do, what do you believe in?

Again what is your point, go crawl back to your little corner of New York state.

Thanks for the "nice" comment Kana. The Memory Player will be successful on its own merits, with or without me.

You also don't know me, my abilities, knowledge, or history and incidentally I am willing to bet I know a bit more about high end audio than you do: I have been selling equipment professionally for 20 years while working at Innovative Audio and Sound by Singer, before I opened my own shop.In that time period I have sold and setup hundreds of systems and sold thousands of pieces of gear.

You name is over the years I have played with most of the mega buck gear that is on the market, and those who actually know me, know that I form my opinions only after a lot of listening.

Also as I have stated before I am not the only one who believes in the superiority of the Memory Player so does:

Clemment Perry, Greg Patan, Arnie Barglavis, Dave Clark, and Harry Person and there are many other reviewers who are replacing DCS and Zanden and EMM Labs with the Memory Player so it really can't be too bad a product. I am also willing to bet that at least one of those reviewers have played with other similar systems.

I believe in the product, but I am also open to the comparisons others are interested in.

The Memory Player sounds amazing and I as well as the other two gentleman on this thread who actually own one will attest to that.

My only fault is believing in my products but as I said I am willing to test and validate my products constantly.

And lastly Kana don't you listen to what your mother told you, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.