Nova Physics Corporation
Can you play that from Memory?
George Bischoff studied at the renowned Berlin Technical
Institute. His brilliance in debating, near instantaneous abstract reasoning power, razor
sharp, spectacularly fast deductive powers were destined to land him with honors
in engineering, physics or mathematics.
But George's intense love of music, and especially how the sound of reproduced music affected
human beings emotionally and intellectually ,proved to be his calling, which he answered
with legendary results.
He recognized and extrapolated a fascinating and controversial correlation between an
individual's ability to resolve stereo imaging, and their IQs! He chose to NOT publish
this potentially volatile paper, but it was indicative of his trend setting works to come.
early 1970s, which continues uninterrupted to this day. His early works, which
paradoxically eschewed digital audio, were the first circuits in High End Audio that used
Nuvistors to enable miniature, quiet TUBE head amps. These were required for moving
coil phono cartridges, and were arguably the best of their kind in their day.
In our experiences, ALL solid state head amps stood in the shadow of George's work in
those early efforts to quietly and linearly with the microvolt level signals, which were
almost ALL exclusively solid state prior to his "JG Acoustics Nuvistor Head-Amplifiers"
released in the early 1970s.
His deep interest in line source loudspeaker concepts led to his first design with a newly
found friend and customer in George's super-high end audio salon, "Personalized Audio"
in Dunellen, NJ, Mark Porzilli. Together, in 1979, they designed and built the first
American ribbon line-source speakers, using the legendary Strathern Ribbons from
England, which garnered accolades in the pages of Stereophile magazine in the 1970s and
early 1980s. These remarkable sounding but atrociously inconsistent QC ribbon
midranges became the nexus of the Infinity QRS systems that were Harry Pearson's
reference system in The Absolute Sound before the IRS was eventually released after
Infinity discarded the HEA market.
The intensity of George's study of how reproduced music interacted with human beings
psychologically, and the "brain triggers" responsible for those to occur in the realm of the
reproduction of music, eventually forced him into the choice most artists eventually face:
happiness OR wealth.
George chose MUSIC knowing it would be his passion for the rest of his life. In an
attempt to produce a living within the constraints of High End Audio, he maintained his
small but VERY High End Audio shop in the 1970's, where he continued to design with
his now frequent customer and infrequent partner, MarkPorzilli. In very short order, they
both knew something 'clicked' and became partners in High End Audio design for the
next 30 years. They remain partners to this day.
Their most monumental joint effort was the co-founding of Melos Audio in 1979. George
co-designed Melos' widely acclaimed, award-winning tube electronics for 20 years. After
leaving Melos, George founded georgemark digital audio, whose first product, the First
Overture tube dac, won "Most Wanted Component" in The Stereo Times in 2004.
He re-partnered with Mark upon Mark's presentation to George that there may be a
significant temporal flaw in digital CD error correction codes. They decided to explore
this both theorhetically and prototypically and the results were so profound, they decided
to try to market "a codeless CD playback system", the first of it's kind in 2004.
Institute. His brilliance in debating, near instantaneous abstract reasoning power, razor
sharp, spectacularly fast deductive powers were destined to land him with honors
in engineering, physics or mathematics.
But George's intense love of music, and especially how the sound of reproduced music affected
human beings emotionally and intellectually ,proved to be his calling, which he answered
with legendary results.
He recognized and extrapolated a fascinating and controversial correlation between an
individual's ability to resolve stereo imaging, and their IQs! He chose to NOT publish
this potentially volatile paper, but it was indicative of his trend setting works to come.
early 1970s, which continues uninterrupted to this day. His early works, which
paradoxically eschewed digital audio, were the first circuits in High End Audio that used
Nuvistors to enable miniature, quiet TUBE head amps. These were required for moving
coil phono cartridges, and were arguably the best of their kind in their day.
In our experiences, ALL solid state head amps stood in the shadow of George's work in
those early efforts to quietly and linearly with the microvolt level signals, which were
almost ALL exclusively solid state prior to his "JG Acoustics Nuvistor Head-Amplifiers"
released in the early 1970s.
His deep interest in line source loudspeaker concepts led to his first design with a newly
found friend and customer in George's super-high end audio salon, "Personalized Audio"
in Dunellen, NJ, Mark Porzilli. Together, in 1979, they designed and built the first
American ribbon line-source speakers, using the legendary Strathern Ribbons from
England, which garnered accolades in the pages of Stereophile magazine in the 1970s and
early 1980s. These remarkable sounding but atrociously inconsistent QC ribbon
midranges became the nexus of the Infinity QRS systems that were Harry Pearson's
reference system in The Absolute Sound before the IRS was eventually released after
Infinity discarded the HEA market.
The intensity of George's study of how reproduced music interacted with human beings
psychologically, and the "brain triggers" responsible for those to occur in the realm of the
reproduction of music, eventually forced him into the choice most artists eventually face:
happiness OR wealth.
George chose MUSIC knowing it would be his passion for the rest of his life. In an
attempt to produce a living within the constraints of High End Audio, he maintained his
small but VERY High End Audio shop in the 1970's, where he continued to design with
his now frequent customer and infrequent partner, MarkPorzilli. In very short order, they
both knew something 'clicked' and became partners in High End Audio design for the
next 30 years. They remain partners to this day.
Their most monumental joint effort was the co-founding of Melos Audio in 1979. George
co-designed Melos' widely acclaimed, award-winning tube electronics for 20 years. After
leaving Melos, George founded georgemark digital audio, whose first product, the First
Overture tube dac, won "Most Wanted Component" in The Stereo Times in 2004.
He re-partnered with Mark upon Mark's presentation to George that there may be a
significant temporal flaw in digital CD error correction codes. They decided to explore
this both theorhetically and prototypically and the results were so profound, they decided
to try to market "a codeless CD playback system", the first of it's kind in 2004.
Mark Porzilli was a child prodigy who built simple circuits
and drew schematics at the incredible age of 5. He completed
a masters level education in Physics,Quantum Mechanics and
Chemistry at age 14, after winning a national competition to
miniaturize electronic circuitry for Bausch & Lomb at age 12. From ages 12-14, he designed
the most sensitive biofeedback electronics then available for Children's Specialized Hospital
in New Jersey and for several other New York City psychiatric facilities. He entered two
state science fairs, winning first place in both before the age of 14. A scholar of religious
philosophy and a prolific artist, his huge body of works, over 2000 images may be viewed
online by clicking HERE
By strange coincidence, new designs in LASER seems to be almost genetically ordained.
Anthony Porzilli, Mark's father, was the chief electronics technician under Lucio Vallese at
ITT Laboratories during his pioneering work on the Ruby Laser, in the early 1960s.
He recalls the extremely precise polishing of "barrels" of rubys and hot white light passing
through the rubys until a single frequency of light ONLY could emit: The L.A.S.E.R.
Mark designed all of Melos Audio's solid state and vacuum tube products with his partner
George Bischoff from 1979-1999. He is also the designer of the original, award winning
Pipedreams Loudspeakers. He is the designer of the new, also award winning
Scaena Line Source Loudspeakers, rave reviewed by Harry Pearson in The Absolute Sound,
January, 2008 and of course, now designs with George, all of Nova Physics products.
In its 20 year history, Melos Audio garnered over 400 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 Loudspeakers won The Absolute Sound's coveted "Golden Ear" award and
appeared on the cover of the Robb Report. Scaena Loudspeakers also won TAS' "Golden
Ear" award in 2008. Melos Audio received no negative reviews in it's two decade history.
The Memory Player is the first product from these 30+ year veterans of High End Audio and
as we write this, The Memory Player has only been "on the market" since November, 2006
and has already won 3 awards and received 7 rave reviews in 3 magazines!
They have united to bring forth a new and radical improvement in the art and science of the
music CD, Memory Playback, and the innovative award-winning vehicle that brings this to
the Audiophile community, The Memory Player.
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.
Still, the industry is enslaved by clocking. An omnipresent potential of losing the original
timing somewhere in the chain of clocks and reclocking devices.
The only exact and unwavering representation of timing in the entire digital audio system IS
STAMPED ON THE CD. The unending refinement of a clock to 're-create' timing that is
perfectly stamped on the CD seems to hold no value, save for spectacular numbers.
If you're old enough, Gentle Reader, you'll recall the "THD Wars" in the 1970s' !
Still, traditional approaches in CD reading have made only "baby steps"
(see Clark Johnsen, Positive Feedback, and Arnis Balgalvis, Positive Feedback
& The Audiophile Voice) and the failures of their performances excused as "just jitter".
In a science that has changed little in two decades, anything introduced that proposes a new
and superior approach is likely to fall under great scrutiny, even perceived as a 'threat'.
This speculation is welcome, as to understand Memory Playback is the first step towards
embracing it as the next chapter in improving the technology of the music CD.
To learn more about Memory Playback, click HERE.
Within this site, we hope to bring greater clarity to explaining, in layman's terms, jitter,
bit-perfection, and clocking. Traditionalists assert that CD is "perfect", and no bits are ever
lost. Experientialists challenge this as "Why, then, do 'perfect' reproductions sound so
vastly different!?" It's true that no bits are lost, but they're anything but 'perfect'.
Alternatives DO exist. The problem is error-correction. The solution is re-reading, not
patches.
The original 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 all ultrasonic noding was awarded a
US Patent, see HERE. After the reviews, The Pipedreams also won the "Golden Ear" from
The Absolute Sound.
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" (in the original Pipedreams Loudspeakers) and a true contact-free
volume control using photo-resistance, "The Photentiometer" which was rave reviewed in
Stereophile magazine.
Some 14,000 Melos Audio products were sold world-wide. Enormous by HEA standards.
and drew schematics at the incredible age of 5. He completed
a masters level education in Physics,Quantum Mechanics and
Chemistry at age 14, after winning a national competition to
miniaturize electronic circuitry for Bausch & Lomb at age 12. From ages 12-14, he designed
the most sensitive biofeedback electronics then available for Children's Specialized Hospital
in New Jersey and for several other New York City psychiatric facilities. He entered two
state science fairs, winning first place in both before the age of 14. A scholar of religious
philosophy and a prolific artist, his huge body of works, over 2000 images may be viewed
online by clicking HERE
By strange coincidence, new designs in LASER seems to be almost genetically ordained.
Anthony Porzilli, Mark's father, was the chief electronics technician under Lucio Vallese at
ITT Laboratories during his pioneering work on the Ruby Laser, in the early 1960s.
He recalls the extremely precise polishing of "barrels" of rubys and hot white light passing
through the rubys until a single frequency of light ONLY could emit: The L.A.S.E.R.
Mark designed all of Melos Audio's solid state and vacuum tube products with his partner
George Bischoff from 1979-1999. He is also the designer of the original, award winning
Pipedreams Loudspeakers. He is the designer of the new, also award winning
Scaena Line Source Loudspeakers, rave reviewed by Harry Pearson in The Absolute Sound,
January, 2008 and of course, now designs with George, all of Nova Physics products.
In its 20 year history, Melos Audio garnered over 400 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 Loudspeakers won The Absolute Sound's coveted "Golden Ear" award and
appeared on the cover of the Robb Report. Scaena Loudspeakers also won TAS' "Golden
Ear" award in 2008. Melos Audio received no negative reviews in it's two decade history.
The Memory Player is the first product from these 30+ year veterans of High End Audio and
as we write this, The Memory Player has only been "on the market" since November, 2006
and has already won 3 awards and received 7 rave reviews in 3 magazines!
They have united to bring forth a new and radical improvement in the art and science of the
music CD, Memory Playback, and the innovative award-winning vehicle that brings this to
the Audiophile community, The Memory Player.
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.
Still, the industry is enslaved by clocking. An omnipresent potential of losing the original
timing somewhere in the chain of clocks and reclocking devices.
The only exact and unwavering representation of timing in the entire digital audio system IS
STAMPED ON THE CD. The unending refinement of a clock to 're-create' timing that is
perfectly stamped on the CD seems to hold no value, save for spectacular numbers.
If you're old enough, Gentle Reader, you'll recall the "THD Wars" in the 1970s' !
Still, traditional approaches in CD reading have made only "baby steps"
(see Clark Johnsen, Positive Feedback, and Arnis Balgalvis, Positive Feedback
& The Audiophile Voice) and the failures of their performances excused as "just jitter".
In a science that has changed little in two decades, anything introduced that proposes a new
and superior approach is likely to fall under great scrutiny, even perceived as a 'threat'.
This speculation is welcome, as to understand Memory Playback is the first step towards
embracing it as the next chapter in improving the technology of the music CD.
To learn more about Memory Playback, click HERE.
Within this site, we hope to bring greater clarity to explaining, in layman's terms, jitter,
bit-perfection, and clocking. Traditionalists assert that CD is "perfect", and no bits are ever
lost. Experientialists challenge this as "Why, then, do 'perfect' reproductions sound so
vastly different!?" It's true that no bits are lost, but they're anything but 'perfect'.
Alternatives DO exist. The problem is error-correction. The solution is re-reading, not
patches.
The original 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 all ultrasonic noding was awarded a
US Patent, see HERE. After the reviews, The Pipedreams also won the "Golden Ear" from
The Absolute Sound.
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" (in the original Pipedreams Loudspeakers) and a true contact-free
volume control using photo-resistance, "The Photentiometer" which was rave reviewed in
Stereophile magazine.
Some 14,000 Melos Audio products were sold world-wide. Enormous by HEA standards.
Can you play that from Memory?
Nova Physics Corporation
Nova Physics Corporation may sound new but The Memory Player
was designed by two of the most experienced veterans of High End Audio
design and manufacturing, with over 30 years in the industry.
was designed by two of the most experienced veterans of High End Audio
design and manufacturing, with over 30 years in the industry.
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