"Nova Physics Group Memory Player (starting at $10K depending on options)
From the near demented minds of George Bischoff and Mark Porzilli, the same dynamic duo that bought you the Pipedreams and the Melos SHA Gold, comes a product that is sure to bring ire from the competition and absolute pleasure for music lovers. I'll say that since serving as the sacrificial lamb, and being the first reviewer to hear this latest offering from Bischoff, Porzilli, and Rod Handley life hasn't been the same for standard 16/44 playback.
The short and sweet of this player is: serving as a computer based design the Memory Player is capable of disabling error correction coding with its patent-pending “Read Until Right” (RUR) trademarked software. Moreover, it stores songs on memory-based solid state, akin to using flash, which the guys from Nova state "induces nearly zero jitter and certainly less than a hard drive." Yeah, I know. You're going to say you know of some other devices that also do the same. Well, not quite. Sonically speaking, there's nothing that I've heard that comes close to the performance of this computer based transport playing back uncompressed WAV files. And I've taken it around and tried it against the very best available including the Reimyo and the Wadia. They both fall short. I can go on and on detailing its sonic qualities but will save that for my upcoming review. For more info go to there Beta website
www.memoryplayer.info or the upcoming
www.novaphysics.com "
So apparently Memory player uses solid state memory instead of a hard drive, a noble thing in my opinion in terms of reliability, but there would be NO benefits as far as sound quality and ability to pull pure data off of the memory (hard drive or flash).
It also means Memory player simply is not going to have humongous memory capacity like hard drives would, which can be Terrabytes in certain players like VRS.
I can now predict with certainty yet another Oh-my-God-how-did-I-ever-listen-to-this-crap-before-the-memory-player raving review at Stereotimes. If anyone from Stereotimes is reading, pretty please, before such rave review is printed, obtain some valid competitors for comparison, i.e. VRS top-of-the-line or maybe the I2S PC audio DAC solutions from Empirical Audio.
