Nova Physics
Can you play that from Memory?
Letters from Home, the Industry, the Press and...YOU!
have given us permission to quote them from their observations on the performance of The Memory Player.
Nearly all of the below have SOLD their: Lector, Stibbert, Theta, Spectral, Esoteric, Wadia, Reimyo, EMM, Zanden
and many more to be replaced by The Memory Player after an audition or comparison was made.
The quotes below date from 2004-2008 except for the first award listed below which was from 2005. We thank them for
their open mindedness, and willingness to accept the possibility that the status quo that has kept CD reading fidelity
development stagnated for 25 YEARS, should be questioned.
When sequential Memory Playback using RUR ™ (Read Until Right) instead of Reed-Solomon and other error
concealment devices was first achieved by the Nova Physics Group in early 2004, a curiously fanatical opposition
took place within the HEA community and more so, in many High End Audio forums.
Today, many of those very same detractors now produce
memory players and some even licensing RUR ™ !
From the outset we have maintained that to ignore the
improvements in CD READING from simple “tweaks”
that were obviously true but as yet, undefined and ignoring
these results to fit our limited knowledge was absurd.
Obviously something was going on.Few who challenged us
could even read RUR ™ or even
the Reed-Solomon codes they so stubbornly defended.
Today, with the noise on the forums dying out,
other memory players starting to appear, some using RUR ™ itself,
apparently instead of arguing, they are listening :
Nearly all of the below have SOLD their: Lector, Stibbert, Theta, Spectral, Esoteric, Wadia, Reimyo, EMM, Zanden
and many more to be replaced by The Memory Player after an audition or comparison was made.
The quotes below date from 2004-2008 except for the first award listed below which was from 2005. We thank them for
their open mindedness, and willingness to accept the possibility that the status quo that has kept CD reading fidelity
development stagnated for 25 YEARS, should be questioned.
When sequential Memory Playback using RUR ™ (Read Until Right) instead of Reed-Solomon and other error
concealment devices was first achieved by the Nova Physics Group in early 2004, a curiously fanatical opposition
took place within the HEA community and more so, in many High End Audio forums.
Today, many of those very same detractors now produce
memory players and some even licensing RUR ™ !
From the outset we have maintained that to ignore the
improvements in CD READING from simple “tweaks”
that were obviously true but as yet, undefined and ignoring
these results to fit our limited knowledge was absurd.
Obviously something was going on.Few who challenged us
could even read RUR ™ or even
the Reed-Solomon codes they so stubbornly defended.
Today, with the noise on the forums dying out,
other memory players starting to appear, some using RUR ™ itself,
apparently instead of arguing, they are listening :
| “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780-1836) |
Arnis Balgalvis
The Audiophile Voice, Positive Feedback
2005
This afternoon I had one of the most significant audio
experiences of my life. I heard your Memory Player at StereoTimes.
Wow! I can't remember the last time that something left me this impressed.
I would venture to predict that this should alter the course of music reproduction in the
home. [Until] I heard your product at (Clement) Perry's yesterday, I have to confess that I
could not envision that the improvement in the playback of a Red Book
CD could be that dramatic.
I envision great things for your product. People will now have to completely reexamine the
possibilities of the "lowly" 44.1/16 format. It may sound dramatic, but I feel that this the
beginning of a new era in digital sound reproduction… I cannot recall any analog demo
that was that impressive!
I hope this goes down in history as a significant development.
The Audiophile Voice, Positive Feedback
2005
This afternoon I had one of the most significant audio
experiences of my life. I heard your Memory Player at StereoTimes.
Wow! I can't remember the last time that something left me this impressed.
I would venture to predict that this should alter the course of music reproduction in the
home. [Until] I heard your product at (Clement) Perry's yesterday, I have to confess that I
could not envision that the improvement in the playback of a Red Book
CD could be that dramatic.
I envision great things for your product. People will now have to completely reexamine the
possibilities of the "lowly" 44.1/16 format. It may sound dramatic, but I feel that this the
beginning of a new era in digital sound reproduction… I cannot recall any analog demo
that was that impressive!
I hope this goes down in history as a significant development.
Billy Drummond
Jazz Musician
2005
The Memory Player is incredible. When you (Clement
Perry, The Stereo Times) played (being reviewed at
The Stereo Times) through The Memory Player it went
to a completely other level. The tone of the instruments
became so true that it was scary.(I know because I'm
playing on it and know what it sounded like when we
were recording!)
My cymbals sounded exactly like they sound with all of
the nuances that only I can hear because have an
intimate knowledge of what they sound like after years
of playing them!
Jazz Musician
2005
The Memory Player is incredible. When you (Clement
Perry, The Stereo Times) played (being reviewed at
The Stereo Times) through The Memory Player it went
to a completely other level. The tone of the instruments
became so true that it was scary.(I know because I'm
playing on it and know what it sounded like when we
were recording!)
My cymbals sounded exactly like they sound with all of
the nuances that only I can hear because have an
intimate knowledge of what they sound like after years
of playing them!
Allen Edelstein
(formerly of Stereophile)
2007
The Memory Player is definitely a product I would love
to take home for a long audition, and I suspect that I
would want to be away from home when the
manufacturer came to pick it back up.
(formerly of Stereophile)
2007
The Memory Player is definitely a product I would love
to take home for a long audition, and I suspect that I
would want to be away from home when the
manufacturer came to pick it back up.
Alan Eichenbaum
President, Scaena Loudspeaker Corporation*
2006
What I had read previously did not prepare me for this...because it is hard to describe
something something you have just experienced for the first time to someone who hasn’t
yet experienced something. Like the first orgasm.
I have owned two of the most highly regarded digital front ends extant...Forsell, Lector,
Stibbert, Theta, Spectral and on and on. I have listened to almost all the others out there.
The Memory Player is so different in its presentation that it is difficult for me to describe
exactly what I hear. What I had read previously did not prepare me for this – the reviewers
too conservative or maybe you just can’t understand by reading about it w/o hearing it.
It seems to me that all other CD playback somehow truncates the notes and voices to some
small or large degree. The truncation somehow gets filled in with what then sounds
unnatural, harsh, artificial. Maybe that is what jitter is; Idon’t know.
By way of analogy, one could speak the sentence “I am going to the store in one hour”. If
that sentence were somehow morphed into being music, it would have a flow to it, a
naturalness – but to me normal CD digital sounds like someone saying “I go store hour”.
Basically we know what the sentence is, but if it was music it would be choppy, incomplete,
robbed of some of the beauty that sounds and music convey. Now imagine six, eight, ten or
more instruments all at the same time saying, “I go store hour”.
It seems that the normal CD playback creates the missing words with a substitute, and
sometimes it does it better than others, or it doesn’t create the missing at all, and it is in
those spaces, the missing words or missing parts of a note or voice where the harshness,
the fatigue, and the sterility occur, and more importantly, some precious music, some
magical quality is lost.
I don’t know what the Memory Player does or how - but it allows for an unimpeded flow that
seems devoid of artificial filler. It allows the precious parts, the clues that tell us we are
listening to musicians and instruments played by them, to come through…
Hence SACD and normal CD playback are no longer viable options. If I were making them –
I would stop. This is not just a better CD player. It is a different experience.
Alan Eichenbaum
Formerly of The Audio Tweakers
President, Scaena Loudspeaker Corporation
* This endorsement was written two years ago. Alan Eichenbaum has since entered into a
business relationship with some of Nova Physics' partners
President, Scaena Loudspeaker Corporation*
2006
What I had read previously did not prepare me for this...because it is hard to describe
something something you have just experienced for the first time to someone who hasn’t
yet experienced something. Like the first orgasm.
I have owned two of the most highly regarded digital front ends extant...Forsell, Lector,
Stibbert, Theta, Spectral and on and on. I have listened to almost all the others out there.
The Memory Player is so different in its presentation that it is difficult for me to describe
exactly what I hear. What I had read previously did not prepare me for this – the reviewers
too conservative or maybe you just can’t understand by reading about it w/o hearing it.
It seems to me that all other CD playback somehow truncates the notes and voices to some
small or large degree. The truncation somehow gets filled in with what then sounds
unnatural, harsh, artificial. Maybe that is what jitter is; Idon’t know.
By way of analogy, one could speak the sentence “I am going to the store in one hour”. If
that sentence were somehow morphed into being music, it would have a flow to it, a
naturalness – but to me normal CD digital sounds like someone saying “I go store hour”.
Basically we know what the sentence is, but if it was music it would be choppy, incomplete,
robbed of some of the beauty that sounds and music convey. Now imagine six, eight, ten or
more instruments all at the same time saying, “I go store hour”.
It seems that the normal CD playback creates the missing words with a substitute, and
sometimes it does it better than others, or it doesn’t create the missing at all, and it is in
those spaces, the missing words or missing parts of a note or voice where the harshness,
the fatigue, and the sterility occur, and more importantly, some precious music, some
magical quality is lost.
I don’t know what the Memory Player does or how - but it allows for an unimpeded flow that
seems devoid of artificial filler. It allows the precious parts, the clues that tell us we are
listening to musicians and instruments played by them, to come through…
Hence SACD and normal CD playback are no longer viable options. If I were making them –
I would stop. This is not just a better CD player. It is a different experience.
Alan Eichenbaum
Formerly of The Audio Tweakers
President, Scaena Loudspeaker Corporation
* This endorsement was written two years ago. Alan Eichenbaum has since entered into a
business relationship with some of Nova Physics' partners
John Jonczyk
Audiophile, NYC
(at a Memory Player audition in The Stereo Times)
2007
...music through your equipment that was able to fool
me into thinking that somebody real was playing or
singing in front of me.
John Jonczyk
Audiophile,NYC
Audiophile, NYC
(at a Memory Player audition in The Stereo Times)
2007
...music through your equipment that was able to fool
me into thinking that somebody real was playing or
singing in front of me.
John Jonczyk
Audiophile,NYC
Lew Lanese
The Stereo Times
2005
I thought CD development had gone as far as it could
go,and significant progress in near state-of-the-art
playback equipment, along comes a unique
technological breakthrough that knocks my
socks off….when Perry (Clement Perry,
The Stereo Times) fired up the Memory Player,
I didn’t expect any really noticeable improvement. Boy,
was I wrong!
Gone was the last vestige of digititis, that peculiar
distortion that often seems to be part of CDs.
Perry calls it High Fi Hype, as good a description as
any. To say that I was impressed is an
understatement.
For me, The Memory Player puts the final nail in the
coffin of high-resolution formats, SACD and DVD-A.
By adding The Memory Player to my system, it will be
as if I replaced my entire CD collection!
The Stereo Times
2005
I thought CD development had gone as far as it could
go,and significant progress in near state-of-the-art
playback equipment, along comes a unique
technological breakthrough that knocks my
socks off….when Perry (Clement Perry,
The Stereo Times) fired up the Memory Player,
I didn’t expect any really noticeable improvement. Boy,
was I wrong!
Gone was the last vestige of digititis, that peculiar
distortion that often seems to be part of CDs.
Perry calls it High Fi Hype, as good a description as
any. To say that I was impressed is an
understatement.
For me, The Memory Player puts the final nail in the
coffin of high-resolution formats, SACD and DVD-A.
By adding The Memory Player to my system, it will be
as if I replaced my entire CD collection!
Robert Hart
Vice President, Vitality Science for Pets
2007
The best digital units available do a better job of minimizing digital problems, but not
eliminating them. When you hear the Memory Player side-by-side with the Stibbert, you
realize how far short conventional digital processing falls from recreating the live (or
recorded) musical events' pacing, imaging, timing, upper-mid to high frequencies, and
musical ease.
Considering that digital manufacturers have been struggling with these exact same issues
for over 20 years, one wonders why someone hasn't decided to think outside the box. That
is, until Mark Porzilli.
It occurred to him that the only way to eliminate digital playbacks' inherent problems was to
start with a fresh sheet of paper. His better mousetrap idea? Extract only the music data.
Then, play it back directly from a non-mechanical memory, eliminating the focus, timing,
and jitter problems inherent with a laser reading a disc spinning on a mechanical
transport. What could be simpler?
Caution: Once you've experienced the Memory Player in your own home, the hook is set.
Long live the new king.
www.vitalityscience.com
Vice President, Vitality Science for Pets
2007
The best digital units available do a better job of minimizing digital problems, but not
eliminating them. When you hear the Memory Player side-by-side with the Stibbert, you
realize how far short conventional digital processing falls from recreating the live (or
recorded) musical events' pacing, imaging, timing, upper-mid to high frequencies, and
musical ease.
Considering that digital manufacturers have been struggling with these exact same issues
for over 20 years, one wonders why someone hasn't decided to think outside the box. That
is, until Mark Porzilli.
It occurred to him that the only way to eliminate digital playbacks' inherent problems was to
start with a fresh sheet of paper. His better mousetrap idea? Extract only the music data.
Then, play it back directly from a non-mechanical memory, eliminating the focus, timing,
and jitter problems inherent with a laser reading a disc spinning on a mechanical
transport. What could be simpler?
Caution: Once you've experienced the Memory Player in your own home, the hook is set.
Long live the new king.
www.vitalityscience.com
Sam Laufer
Behold Audio Electronics USA
LauferTekNik Incorporated*
2006
…as impressive a light as the A/B comparison casts, in some ways the dissection of its
virtues (the Memory Player) misses the essence of my real impression – that of disbelief at
how beautiful and true to life the music sounded through the system as a whole.
The Memory Player pushed the overall system that much closer to a disappearing act.
I truly felt privileged being in the same room or recording venue as these fabulous
musicians – I almost felt like whispering during the performances. Had I forgotten to pay
for a ticket?
* This endorsement was written two years ago. Sam Laufer has since joined and helped
reorganize the new Nova Physics.
Behold Audio Electronics USA
LauferTekNik Incorporated*
2006
…as impressive a light as the A/B comparison casts, in some ways the dissection of its
virtues (the Memory Player) misses the essence of my real impression – that of disbelief at
how beautiful and true to life the music sounded through the system as a whole.
The Memory Player pushed the overall system that much closer to a disappearing act.
I truly felt privileged being in the same room or recording venue as these fabulous
musicians – I almost felt like whispering during the performances. Had I forgotten to pay
for a ticket?
* This endorsement was written two years ago. Sam Laufer has since joined and helped
reorganize the new Nova Physics.
Dr. Dennis Parham
The Stereo Times
2005
The Memory Player is the finest component I’ve
ever owned.
The sound, convenience and technology make
it a benchmark to follow in this ever-changing
world of audio. In addition I’m honored to be
among the first group of audio enthusiast s and
press to have an opportunity to employ this
technology in my home.
The Stereo Times
2005
The Memory Player is the finest component I’ve
ever owned.
The sound, convenience and technology make
it a benchmark to follow in this ever-changing
world of audio. In addition I’m honored to be
among the first group of audio enthusiast s and
press to have an opportunity to employ this
technology in my home.
Greg Petan
Editor, The Stereo Times
2005
I sold one of my paintings today,
which paid for my Memory Player
plus a dozen roses for the Mrs! We (The Stereo
Times) are honored to be the first to have at it.
Editor, The Stereo Times
2005
I sold one of my paintings today,
which paid for my Memory Player
plus a dozen roses for the Mrs! We (The Stereo
Times) are honored to be the first to have at it.
Scot Markwell
Classic Records and TheMusic.com, Los Angeles, CA
2008
The Nova Physics Memory Player invented by by Mark Porzilli is not only the single greatest breakthrough in (theoretical) CD playback technology since its
inception in 1982, but also the finest-sounding digital system for playing music in the home that I have ever heard.
I am one of those people for whom CDs never really mattered much. Not only did I own a sizeable (4000+) LP collection that I had toted around with me
for the last 37 years without ever giving up on it, but ever since I heard the first CDs and players I was just not impressed. Early CD sound was not
anything to write home about at all, except to complain how it sucked. And then it was back to those records, many of which I still to this day have not
managed to have even the first listen to. So program material was never a problem.
The problem always was that I had been indoctrinated into live orchestral music before the age of 10 and I was smitten from the first. Many folks these
days scoff at the mere notion that actual live acoustic music is a good thing to compare against home stereos because they feel that, since there is no
way that any home system could ever approach the full fidelity of a symphony orchestra, it is a futile gesture to make such comparisons. I say that this is
total bunk, and demonstrably false. Here is why: if one goes habitually to live orchestral concerts, jazz clubs, concerts of vocal music in churches, and the
like, one easily and quickly develops an ear for what supporting acoustics sound like, good and bad, what various instruments sound like when played in
different-sized venues, how ensemble playing sounds when played loudly and softly, etc.
After a little time, a careful listener can easily develop a reasonable auditory recall, and be able to discern fairly subtle sonic differences between halls,
musicians, and styles of instruments, in a similar manner that any decent rock guitar player can hear the difference between a Stratocaster and a Les
Paul.
It was pretty obvious, even to this writer as a young 23 yr-old in 1982, that early CD playback left a lot to be desired. It was harsh, edgy, lacking in real
orchestral weight and body, and certainly did not have the sense of almost endless bandwidth and lack of a high- frequency “lid” on the musical playback
experience that LPs had.
Fast forward 30+ years, and here we are with CDs that sound better than ever and sometimes actually really good, as well as 24/96 & 24/192 DVD
sound, and SACD. Digital today is actually pretty darn good in many respects. Still not on par with records, but often listenable and enjoyable enough, as
long as one did not make a habit of listening to LPs.
Now we jump to the present day, and have a listen to Mark Porzilli’s latest brain-child, The Memory Player. Not only does it put a fresh new face on CD
playback, but it has changed the face of what we know as conventional 16/44 digital technology to show that not only is “regular Red Book” CD now
acceptable to listen to as music, but it handily eclipses, in sonic quality, any currently available CD system, regardless of price.
The MP is a one-stop CD solution, and with the addition of another analog input the possibilities for endless musical enjoyment seem boundless. I
envision even pros in studios using the storage and playback capabilities of the MP to their great advantage in order to really hear what they have
mastered, without having to have access to the actual master tapes.
PS: I think that it may be beneficial to relate the stories of some people who have come to the shop and heard the Memory Player. All of them have had a
similar experience.
First there was me. I immediately heard what the player was doing and I became very impressed and excited, and got my boss, Mike Hobson, all juiced
up to hear it. But... Dan Schwartz (formerly long-timer of TAS) came by and had a listen to some of his CDs in a regular player and then the MP, and he
immediately declared that the MP removed all of his long-standing objections to the CD format, and that he wanted to buy one. Then a customer who
came in to listen to some speakers that I had for sale listened to the MP. As soon is he heard the demo of his CD play in the regular player and then the
MP he jumped out of his chair and danced around and smiled real big, and declared that this was the best thing he ever heard and that he had to have
one and that he would be back in two months.
Anyone who listens to this amazing device is immediately smitten with it and what it does.
To experience it is to want it...the best digital reproduction on the planet!
Classic Records and TheMusic.com, Los Angeles, CA
2008
The Nova Physics Memory Player invented by by Mark Porzilli is not only the single greatest breakthrough in (theoretical) CD playback technology since its
inception in 1982, but also the finest-sounding digital system for playing music in the home that I have ever heard.
I am one of those people for whom CDs never really mattered much. Not only did I own a sizeable (4000+) LP collection that I had toted around with me
for the last 37 years without ever giving up on it, but ever since I heard the first CDs and players I was just not impressed. Early CD sound was not
anything to write home about at all, except to complain how it sucked. And then it was back to those records, many of which I still to this day have not
managed to have even the first listen to. So program material was never a problem.
The problem always was that I had been indoctrinated into live orchestral music before the age of 10 and I was smitten from the first. Many folks these
days scoff at the mere notion that actual live acoustic music is a good thing to compare against home stereos because they feel that, since there is no
way that any home system could ever approach the full fidelity of a symphony orchestra, it is a futile gesture to make such comparisons. I say that this is
total bunk, and demonstrably false. Here is why: if one goes habitually to live orchestral concerts, jazz clubs, concerts of vocal music in churches, and the
like, one easily and quickly develops an ear for what supporting acoustics sound like, good and bad, what various instruments sound like when played in
different-sized venues, how ensemble playing sounds when played loudly and softly, etc.
After a little time, a careful listener can easily develop a reasonable auditory recall, and be able to discern fairly subtle sonic differences between halls,
musicians, and styles of instruments, in a similar manner that any decent rock guitar player can hear the difference between a Stratocaster and a Les
Paul.
It was pretty obvious, even to this writer as a young 23 yr-old in 1982, that early CD playback left a lot to be desired. It was harsh, edgy, lacking in real
orchestral weight and body, and certainly did not have the sense of almost endless bandwidth and lack of a high- frequency “lid” on the musical playback
experience that LPs had.
Fast forward 30+ years, and here we are with CDs that sound better than ever and sometimes actually really good, as well as 24/96 & 24/192 DVD
sound, and SACD. Digital today is actually pretty darn good in many respects. Still not on par with records, but often listenable and enjoyable enough, as
long as one did not make a habit of listening to LPs.
Now we jump to the present day, and have a listen to Mark Porzilli’s latest brain-child, The Memory Player. Not only does it put a fresh new face on CD
playback, but it has changed the face of what we know as conventional 16/44 digital technology to show that not only is “regular Red Book” CD now
acceptable to listen to as music, but it handily eclipses, in sonic quality, any currently available CD system, regardless of price.
The MP is a one-stop CD solution, and with the addition of another analog input the possibilities for endless musical enjoyment seem boundless. I
envision even pros in studios using the storage and playback capabilities of the MP to their great advantage in order to really hear what they have
mastered, without having to have access to the actual master tapes.
PS: I think that it may be beneficial to relate the stories of some people who have come to the shop and heard the Memory Player. All of them have had a
similar experience.
First there was me. I immediately heard what the player was doing and I became very impressed and excited, and got my boss, Mike Hobson, all juiced
up to hear it. But... Dan Schwartz (formerly long-timer of TAS) came by and had a listen to some of his CDs in a regular player and then the MP, and he
immediately declared that the MP removed all of his long-standing objections to the CD format, and that he wanted to buy one. Then a customer who
came in to listen to some speakers that I had for sale listened to the MP. As soon is he heard the demo of his CD play in the regular player and then the
MP he jumped out of his chair and danced around and smiled real big, and declared that this was the best thing he ever heard and that he had to have
one and that he would be back in two months.
Anyone who listens to this amazing device is immediately smitten with it and what it does.
To experience it is to want it...the best digital reproduction on the planet!
Clement Perry
Publisher, The Stereo Times
2006
...it has the uncanniest ability to relay space and voice authenticity. In this,
you get a sense of real people in the room and the performance taking on
such a natural quality, not from a tone perspective but from a spatial one...it
can be undeniably hard to quantify, much less try to hear at first grasp.
It gets the music out. It also won't sound as thick on important bottom
octaves, which can cloud bass fundamentals. This thing has quite an
amazingly transparent signature, or the lack thereof. It is easily the most
graceful sounding digital transport I've ever heard...Nothing has ever served
the music to me in this manner. The Memory Player’s ability to render the
illusion of space is the best I've heard.
Months later, descriptions of hosting many demonstrations as an owner of
The Memory Player :
Their first impressions (of hearing The Memory Player) were the
equivalent of a UFO landing on my front lawn.
Obviously, The Memory Player way out shined the others (digital drives
used in the tests at The Stereo Times).
Stranger things have been said, but one thing is certain. This baby sounds
better, rather more musically correct and thus authentic of music than
anything digital I've had l thus far.
Publisher, The Stereo Times
2006
...it has the uncanniest ability to relay space and voice authenticity. In this,
you get a sense of real people in the room and the performance taking on
such a natural quality, not from a tone perspective but from a spatial one...it
can be undeniably hard to quantify, much less try to hear at first grasp.
It gets the music out. It also won't sound as thick on important bottom
octaves, which can cloud bass fundamentals. This thing has quite an
amazingly transparent signature, or the lack thereof. It is easily the most
graceful sounding digital transport I've ever heard...Nothing has ever served
the music to me in this manner. The Memory Player’s ability to render the
illusion of space is the best I've heard.
Months later, descriptions of hosting many demonstrations as an owner of
The Memory Player :
Their first impressions (of hearing The Memory Player) were the
equivalent of a UFO landing on my front lawn.
Obviously, The Memory Player way out shined the others (digital drives
used in the tests at The Stereo Times).
Stranger things have been said, but one thing is certain. This baby sounds
better, rather more musically correct and thus authentic of music than
anything digital I've had l thus far.
David Nemzer
The Audiophile Voice
2005
...my impressions after two listening sessions AND based on my
strong expertise in having many years in listening to your (RW of TAV)
system and its growth over the years; a system that I know with great
knowledge and awareness of all subtle changes over those years.
Added to this is the fact that we (Ross Wagner, David Nemzer) own or
have owned many of the same pieces of equipment, so our
knowledge of how "it" sounds is based upon mutual experience with
the same equipment.
Usually when louder, it gets boomy, but not with The Memory Player.
Orchestral presentation also is better in the separation of instruments
in
space. All in all, the sound is much more natural and pleasing
While I have no technical ability to agree with or refute what The
Memory Player is doing and why it does it, I can say with total
confidence that what it is doing is extraordinary!
We both (Ross Wagner, TAV, TAS) own the Pipedreams and we both
are using the same (Melos 400W Triode) amps; the difference in your
system with The Memory Player is radical. All instruments are more
natural in their timbre and the spatial relationship of the instruments
in the classical orchestra is much improved.
Where The Memory Player really scares me is with the human voice-
Physical size of the singer is amazingly correct with the sound
seemingly coming from a physical person and not out of the darkness
of the recording background. I refer to the same Tebaldi recording I
always use. The subtle vibrato in some of her words have never been
so audible as they are with the Memory She IS standing there singing
to me!!!
The Audiophile Voice
2005
...my impressions after two listening sessions AND based on my
strong expertise in having many years in listening to your (RW of TAV)
system and its growth over the years; a system that I know with great
knowledge and awareness of all subtle changes over those years.
Added to this is the fact that we (Ross Wagner, David Nemzer) own or
have owned many of the same pieces of equipment, so our
knowledge of how "it" sounds is based upon mutual experience with
the same equipment.
Usually when louder, it gets boomy, but not with The Memory Player.
Orchestral presentation also is better in the separation of instruments
in
space. All in all, the sound is much more natural and pleasing
While I have no technical ability to agree with or refute what The
Memory Player is doing and why it does it, I can say with total
confidence that what it is doing is extraordinary!
We both (Ross Wagner, TAV, TAS) own the Pipedreams and we both
are using the same (Melos 400W Triode) amps; the difference in your
system with The Memory Player is radical. All instruments are more
natural in their timbre and the spatial relationship of the instruments
in the classical orchestra is much improved.
Where The Memory Player really scares me is with the human voice-
Physical size of the singer is amazingly correct with the sound
seemingly coming from a physical person and not out of the darkness
of the recording background. I refer to the same Tebaldi recording I
always use. The subtle vibrato in some of her words have never been
so audible as they are with the Memory She IS standing there singing
to me!!!
Ross Wagner
Guest Reviewer, The Absolute Sound
2005
The Memory Player is staying here. The sound of Memory Player
through the Melos (MAT-1000, 400W Triode Monoblocks and
Pipedreams model 21) is the best ever in this system, by a
substantial margin. Can't be giving that up. With The Memory Player,
things have come to life, like kicking your spurs into the flank of an old
nag. Very clean, very detailed, very musical.
A CD copy burned (on The Memory Player) can be better than the
original CD had ever been heard! A remarkable piece of technology!
The Memory Player adds dimensionality and fascination to the audio
experience.
The Memory Player represents the leading edge of what might be a
revolution in the playback of music. I am privileged to be one of the
chosen ones to review a complete Memory Player.
It will change Audio history. It will.
Guest Reviewer, The Absolute Sound
2005
The Memory Player is staying here. The sound of Memory Player
through the Melos (MAT-1000, 400W Triode Monoblocks and
Pipedreams model 21) is the best ever in this system, by a
substantial margin. Can't be giving that up. With The Memory Player,
things have come to life, like kicking your spurs into the flank of an old
nag. Very clean, very detailed, very musical.
A CD copy burned (on The Memory Player) can be better than the
original CD had ever been heard! A remarkable piece of technology!
The Memory Player adds dimensionality and fascination to the audio
experience.
The Memory Player represents the leading edge of what might be a
revolution in the playback of music. I am privileged to be one of the
chosen ones to review a complete Memory Player.
It will change Audio history. It will.
Bill Wells, The Stereo Times, on The Memory Player
2005
...Playback then comes strictly from the memory (no moving parts) with
one of the purist sound reproductions I've ever heard.
During my initial listening experience, it reminded me of the very best
of analog with tube electronics!!! Absolutely zero digital artifacts, and
when compared to another superb and musically outstanding digital
player , as CP (Clement Perry, The Stereo Times) would say...."GAME
OVER!" Basically, no contest - not even close by any standards.
Once you hear something like The Memory Player, it will make you
think about the limitations of standard CD playback, and possibly
rethink your next move.
2005
...Playback then comes strictly from the memory (no moving parts) with
one of the purist sound reproductions I've ever heard.
During my initial listening experience, it reminded me of the very best
of analog with tube electronics!!! Absolutely zero digital artifacts, and
when compared to another superb and musically outstanding digital
player , as CP (Clement Perry, The Stereo Times) would say...."GAME
OVER!" Basically, no contest - not even close by any standards.
Once you hear something like The Memory Player, it will make you
think about the limitations of standard CD playback, and possibly
rethink your next move.
Leonard Tan, Founder
The Revelation Room, Singapore
www.therevelationroom.com
In recent years there has been a global growing interest in the ancient arts and sciences. Witness the mushrooming number of spas offering
Ayurvedic and other traditional natural healing and cleansing treatments. The concept of Vaastu Shastra, the ancient Indian art of building deals
with various aspects of designing and building living environments that are in harmony with the physical and metaphysical forces. Building
practices based on limited interpretations of these principles are still sustained in parts of India. Though Vastu is conceptually similar to Feng
Shui in that it also tries to harmonize the flow of energy (Also called life-force, and Prana in Sanskrit, similar to Chi in Chinese) through the house,
it differs in the details, such as the exact directions in which various objects, rooms, materials etc are to be placed.
What has the ancient science and art have to do with a modern technology like digital audio? We could use something hokey as an analogy like
“transcendence” for example, and liken the Nova Physics Memory Player to some mysterious ancient science and art that is most trendy these
days. Like how the plethora of high end audio devices (both passive and active) available today that are touted with the same mysticism and allure
of Vaastu or Feng Shui to describe their performance and effectiveness.
The simple truth is that the Nova Physics Memory Player does ”harmonize the flow of energy”through one’s audio system in the digital domain. Its
take on Redbook CD and higher resolution digital audio is so fundamentally correct that it has redefined the benchmark in this overcrowded and
confused segment of the audio universe.
Are you aware that the mathematics upon which ALL digital software is based was discovered in the 1960s? Neither did we till Nova Physics did a
rethink on digital playback. The math is known as the Reed–Solomon Error Correction Code or ECC. “ECC” appears on the back of your digital
gear and on virtually every digital medium e.g. CDs and not many people understand the limitations of ECC for music playback. But then not many
people are Mark Porzilli either, and you would expect nothing less from the mind of a once child genius.
Oh we are also are the Asia Pacific distributors for Nova Physics and so yes we are biased, and we just absolutely feel that the Nova Physics
Memory Player performs at a level that will embarrass the established, and challenge all comers.
The Revelation Room, Singapore
www.therevelationroom.com
In recent years there has been a global growing interest in the ancient arts and sciences. Witness the mushrooming number of spas offering
Ayurvedic and other traditional natural healing and cleansing treatments. The concept of Vaastu Shastra, the ancient Indian art of building deals
with various aspects of designing and building living environments that are in harmony with the physical and metaphysical forces. Building
practices based on limited interpretations of these principles are still sustained in parts of India. Though Vastu is conceptually similar to Feng
Shui in that it also tries to harmonize the flow of energy (Also called life-force, and Prana in Sanskrit, similar to Chi in Chinese) through the house,
it differs in the details, such as the exact directions in which various objects, rooms, materials etc are to be placed.
What has the ancient science and art have to do with a modern technology like digital audio? We could use something hokey as an analogy like
“transcendence” for example, and liken the Nova Physics Memory Player to some mysterious ancient science and art that is most trendy these
days. Like how the plethora of high end audio devices (both passive and active) available today that are touted with the same mysticism and allure
of Vaastu or Feng Shui to describe their performance and effectiveness.
The simple truth is that the Nova Physics Memory Player does ”harmonize the flow of energy”through one’s audio system in the digital domain. Its
take on Redbook CD and higher resolution digital audio is so fundamentally correct that it has redefined the benchmark in this overcrowded and
confused segment of the audio universe.
Are you aware that the mathematics upon which ALL digital software is based was discovered in the 1960s? Neither did we till Nova Physics did a
rethink on digital playback. The math is known as the Reed–Solomon Error Correction Code or ECC. “ECC” appears on the back of your digital
gear and on virtually every digital medium e.g. CDs and not many people understand the limitations of ECC for music playback. But then not many
people are Mark Porzilli either, and you would expect nothing less from the mind of a once child genius.
Oh we are also are the Asia Pacific distributors for Nova Physics and so yes we are biased, and we just absolutely feel that the Nova Physics
Memory Player performs at a level that will embarrass the established, and challenge all comers.
Jack Bornstein,
Esoteric Audio & Video, Houston, TX, on Build 7
2006
I'll ask for some fine tuning tips once the shock and awe wear
off, but man, I have not been able to move from my
listeners seat.
Great work! The "Build 7" design provides much more than
the subtle upgrade I was expecting!
Now I want one for my 5 channel HT system! Darn it!
I shipped my EMM LABS CDSE back to them once I heard The
Memory Player, as I realized then, there was no need to carry
a secondary player. The Memory Player will be the
centerpiece of my 2-channel reference audio system.
Esoteric Audio & Video, Houston, TX, on Build 7
2006
I'll ask for some fine tuning tips once the shock and awe wear
off, but man, I have not been able to move from my
listeners seat.
Great work! The "Build 7" design provides much more than
the subtle upgrade I was expecting!
Now I want one for my 5 channel HT system! Darn it!
I shipped my EMM LABS CDSE back to them once I heard The
Memory Player, as I realized then, there was no need to carry
a secondary player. The Memory Player will be the
centerpiece of my 2-channel reference audio system.
Ron Yee Audio
Honolulu, Hawaii
2006
I am KNOCKED OUT by The Memory Player. It easily
outdoes any CD playback system I have ever heard and by
a convincing margin. One has to have a pretty good a
convincing margin. One has to have a pretty good system
(highly resolved and very dynamic, especially at the system
(highly resolved and very dynamic, especially at the micro
level) to fully appreciate what The Memory Player can do,
but mine is (Eben X-3 speakers, DarTZee amp and
preamp), and the differences between The Memory Player
and any other digital playback system that I or any of my
friends has is not subtle.
…the best digital playback of any of my friends (using a
Forsell Air transport and an Audiologic tube output DAC),
but although it was a bit closer, Dennis could easily hear
the superiority of the Memory Player over his digital set-up.
This past Saturday, I took the Memory Player down to the
shop of a local A/V dealer friend of mine, who is in fact very
curious about the Memory Player. He is just breaking-in
two new sets of Magico speakers, a pair of "Minis" and a
pair of the new "V3" model. He ran them with a Lamm
linestage and DarTZeel amp, so the playback was pretty
heavy duty (really, really good, as a matter of fact, despite
the speakers not being really ready). Four regular
customers and a few new ones listened to The Memory
Player for varying amounts of time, and all were taken
aback by how different it sounds from "normal" digital
playback - how much quieter and how much "cleaner" and
more nuanced the sound is and how much more clarity
and "fluidity" digital playback seems have coming from The
Memory Player...
Nevertheless, after much trial and tribulation, I must report
that I am thrilled with The Memory Player. It makes all my
CDs sound more musical and more lifelike. A lot of CDs
that I haven't listened to in ages because I was
disappointed with the way they sound have been
resurrected, because they now sound like I hoped they
would, and in quite a few instances, better than I hoped for.
Honolulu, Hawaii
2006
I am KNOCKED OUT by The Memory Player. It easily
outdoes any CD playback system I have ever heard and by
a convincing margin. One has to have a pretty good a
convincing margin. One has to have a pretty good system
(highly resolved and very dynamic, especially at the system
(highly resolved and very dynamic, especially at the micro
level) to fully appreciate what The Memory Player can do,
but mine is (Eben X-3 speakers, DarTZee amp and
preamp), and the differences between The Memory Player
and any other digital playback system that I or any of my
friends has is not subtle.
…the best digital playback of any of my friends (using a
Forsell Air transport and an Audiologic tube output DAC),
but although it was a bit closer, Dennis could easily hear
the superiority of the Memory Player over his digital set-up.
This past Saturday, I took the Memory Player down to the
shop of a local A/V dealer friend of mine, who is in fact very
curious about the Memory Player. He is just breaking-in
two new sets of Magico speakers, a pair of "Minis" and a
pair of the new "V3" model. He ran them with a Lamm
linestage and DarTZeel amp, so the playback was pretty
heavy duty (really, really good, as a matter of fact, despite
the speakers not being really ready). Four regular
customers and a few new ones listened to The Memory
Player for varying amounts of time, and all were taken
aback by how different it sounds from "normal" digital
playback - how much quieter and how much "cleaner" and
more nuanced the sound is and how much more clarity
and "fluidity" digital playback seems have coming from The
Memory Player...
Nevertheless, after much trial and tribulation, I must report
that I am thrilled with The Memory Player. It makes all my
CDs sound more musical and more lifelike. A lot of CDs
that I haven't listened to in ages because I was
disappointed with the way they sound have been
resurrected, because they now sound like I hoped they
would, and in quite a few instances, better than I hoped for.
