Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC


Has anybody owning the Memory Player compared it to a dedicated PC system using software(such as EAC and Foobar, and by-passing the gremlins of Windows Media ) with a good USB2 to AES/EBU converter, like the Offramp available from Emperical Audio to a top quality DAC.
Is this the future for transports?
thanks.
Nev
nevillekapadia
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.
This is very interesting!

Has this median reached the stage that it betters the performance than the top mechanism/drives from Esoteric.

The vibration-free VRDS-NEO drive by Esoteric also uses a type of "RUR" and SDRAM memory to read the audio data from. IMO, there are some important advantages the VRDS-NEO transport has over computer based solutions. I am not saying computer audio is bad but I’d take the VRDS-NEO any time. :-)

There are processes going on in the player after RUR which processes the data and helps create the Memory Player's sound.

I thought that the so called audiophile quality is about purity and unaltered audio information reproduced as close to the originally intended way as possible. Isn’t it? I wasn’t aware that audio data processing “helping” creating the sound we want is an option when it comes to the High-End audio industry. Well, now I know! :-)

Regards,
Alex
Audiooracle- I am not doubting MP's playback levels being superfine. All I want sound comparison between a well built PC with reliable software, good converters such as Emperical's and a fine dac and the MP.
I have heard the former (PC-Emperical-fine Dac) and was amazed at the playback quality on redbook. Hence are people discovering this in an MP and are going rah-rah over it? Or is the MP vastly superior when audiophiles have done a shoot out.
Alex- no disprespect to the Esoteric drives as they are works of engineering skill, an also what you make from them. My 'days of numbered' comment is also based on a cost to performance ratio.
My final request would be a comparison between the MP-PC-and the 2.5
All these components have great merit, but would any stand out way ahead of the others. Otherwise it will come down to personal likes.


Just a slightly OT question: how would playback from memory (RAM) in itself be better, as opposed to playback from a hard drive, a flash drive or whatever?

Someone forgets that in order to play _anything_ on a computer, the data must first be transferred to memory. So no matter which media you use, when it comes to actually feeding the PCM to the output device of your choice, it IS being read from RAM.

So, how would a RAM drive help?
Alex,
He's simply selling his product. All 100+ of his posts deal with either himself or a product he sells.

Ignore him like everybody else does.