Nova Physics
Can you play that from Memory?
George Bischoff
George's intense love of music, and how the sound of reproduced music affects human
beings emotionally and intellectually, have always been his lifelong passions.
During the late 1970's, his early works in electronics design, which paradoxically
eschewed digital audio, were the first circuits in High End Audio to use Nuvistors,
used to design miniature, quiet TUBE head amps. These were required for moving coil
phono cartridges, and were arguably the best of their kind in their day.
Solid state head amps stood in the shadow of George's work in those early efforts. His
company, JG Acoustics, released their Nuvistor Head-Amplifiers in the early 1970s.
Around that time, JG Acoustics also featured the first commercial success of Bextrene
speaker design technology.
George's 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, located in Dunellen, New Jersey. In 1979, Mark Porzilli and George Bischoff
together 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 QC
ribbon midranges were notoriously inconsistent, prompting Melos Audio to offer a
service to match Strathern ribbons. The Stratherns nonetheless became the nexus of
the Infinity QRS systems that were Harry Pearson's reference in The Absolute Sound.
Their most monumental joint effort was, of course, Melos Audio, in business from 1979
to 1999. After leaving Melos, George founded GeorgeMark Audio, whose first product,
the First Overture tube dac, won "Most Wanted Component" in The Stereo Times in
2004.
In early 2004, George re-partnered with Mark upon Mark's presentation of a theoretical
design that illustrated a significant temporal flaw in digital CD error correction codes
(ECC, the Reed-Solomon codes). At that time, they decided to explore this, both
theoretically and prototypically, and the results were so profound that they decided to
market "a codeless CD playback system", the first of its kind, called The Memory Player.
George's intense love of music, and how the sound of reproduced music affects human
beings emotionally and intellectually, have always been his lifelong passions.
During the late 1970's, his early works in electronics design, which paradoxically
eschewed digital audio, were the first circuits in High End Audio to use Nuvistors,
used to design miniature, quiet TUBE head amps. These were required for moving coil
phono cartridges, and were arguably the best of their kind in their day.
Solid state head amps stood in the shadow of George's work in those early efforts. His
company, JG Acoustics, released their Nuvistor Head-Amplifiers in the early 1970s.
Around that time, JG Acoustics also featured the first commercial success of Bextrene
speaker design technology.
George's 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, located in Dunellen, New Jersey. In 1979, Mark Porzilli and George Bischoff
together 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 QC
ribbon midranges were notoriously inconsistent, prompting Melos Audio to offer a
service to match Strathern ribbons. The Stratherns nonetheless became the nexus of
the Infinity QRS systems that were Harry Pearson's reference in The Absolute Sound.
Their most monumental joint effort was, of course, Melos Audio, in business from 1979
to 1999. After leaving Melos, George founded GeorgeMark Audio, whose first product,
the First Overture tube dac, won "Most Wanted Component" in The Stereo Times in
2004.
In early 2004, George re-partnered with Mark upon Mark's presentation of a theoretical
design that illustrated a significant temporal flaw in digital CD error correction codes
(ECC, the Reed-Solomon codes). At that time, they decided to explore this, both
theoretically and prototypically, and the results were so profound that they decided to
market "a codeless CD playback system", the first of its kind, called The Memory Player.
Mark Porzilli was a child prodigy who built simple circuits
and drew schematics at the incredible age of 5. He completed
a college level education in Chemistry and Physics by age 14,
after winning a national competition to miniaturize electronic
circuitry for Bausch & Lomb at age 12. From ages 12 to 14, he
designed the most sensitive biofeedback electronics then
available for Childrens Specialized Hospital in New Jersey and
several 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 rubies, and hot
white light passing through the rubies until a single frequency of light ONLY could
emit: The L.A.S.E.R. (Light Amplification by Simulated Emission Radiation).
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 also the designer of the new,
award-winning Scaena Line Source Loudspeakers, rave reviewed by Harry Pearson in
The Absolute Sound, January, 2008. Now Mark, along with George, designs 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 its 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 four "Most Wanted Component" awards from
The Stereo Times and received seven rave reviews in three magazines (The Stereo Times,
Positive Feedback, and The Audiophile Voice)!
Through The Memory Player, an innovative award-winning vehicle, George and Mark
have brought forth a new and radical improvement in the art and science of the music
CD, Memory Playback, to the Audiophile community.
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
and 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 this issue, by 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) as well as 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, an enormous
accomplishment by HEA standards.
and drew schematics at the incredible age of 5. He completed
a college level education in Chemistry and Physics by age 14,
after winning a national competition to miniaturize electronic
circuitry for Bausch & Lomb at age 12. From ages 12 to 14, he
designed the most sensitive biofeedback electronics then
available for Childrens Specialized Hospital in New Jersey and
several 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 rubies, and hot
white light passing through the rubies until a single frequency of light ONLY could
emit: The L.A.S.E.R. (Light Amplification by Simulated Emission Radiation).
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 also the designer of the new,
award-winning Scaena Line Source Loudspeakers, rave reviewed by Harry Pearson in
The Absolute Sound, January, 2008. Now Mark, along with George, designs 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 its 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 four "Most Wanted Component" awards from
The Stereo Times and received seven rave reviews in three magazines (The Stereo Times,
Positive Feedback, and The Audiophile Voice)!
Through The Memory Player, an innovative award-winning vehicle, George and Mark
have brought forth a new and radical improvement in the art and science of the music
CD, Memory Playback, to the Audiophile community.
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
and 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 this issue, by 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) as well as 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, an enormous
accomplishment by HEA standards.
Can you play that from Memory?
Nova Physics
The Memory Player by Nova Physics may sound new, but its designers are
two of the most experienced and well-known veterans of High End Audio, with over 30 years
in the industry. In electronic designs, Melos Audio won over 400 rave reviews on 6 continents
without a single negative review in its20 year history.
Melos Audio held 10 products in Stereophile's Class A Recommended Components
for 12 YEARS and on The Absolute Sound's Editors Choice for 20 YEARS.
Over 14,000 people own Melos Audio electronics. Their works extend beyond HEA
electronics to include the PATENTED Pipedreams Loudspeakers (no relationship with the present Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams) and much more recently,
the Scaena Loudspeakers. Both loudspeaker systems were rave reviewed in The Absolute Sound, and both were awarded the Golden Ear.
With Nova Physics, they created "the first serious alternative to Reed-Solomon error correction in digital audio since 1982" (Arnis Balgalvis, Positive Feedback
and The Audiophile Voice) and the first high end music server; both represented in The Memory Player, in 2004. The Memory Player has already received
12 rave reviews and awarded Most Wanted Component FOUR TIMES in The Stereo Times,2005,2006 2007, & 2008).
two of the most experienced and well-known veterans of High End Audio, with over 30 years
in the industry. In electronic designs, Melos Audio won over 400 rave reviews on 6 continents
without a single negative review in its20 year history.
Melos Audio held 10 products in Stereophile's Class A Recommended Components
for 12 YEARS and on The Absolute Sound's Editors Choice for 20 YEARS.
Over 14,000 people own Melos Audio electronics. Their works extend beyond HEA
electronics to include the PATENTED Pipedreams Loudspeakers (no relationship with the present Nearfield Acoustics Pipedreams) and much more recently,
the Scaena Loudspeakers. Both loudspeaker systems were rave reviewed in The Absolute Sound, and both were awarded the Golden Ear.
With Nova Physics, they created "the first serious alternative to Reed-Solomon error correction in digital audio since 1982" (Arnis Balgalvis, Positive Feedback
and The Audiophile Voice) and the first high end music server; both represented in The Memory Player, in 2004. The Memory Player has already received
12 rave reviews and awarded Most Wanted Component FOUR TIMES in The Stereo Times,2005,2006 2007, & 2008).
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