Nova Physics Group Memory Player. Original owner and excellent condition. Factory upgraded power supply and DVD Audio Burner/Player option. Makes incredible cds. Has hard drive to store data for 300 cds. Additional hard drive storage can be added. This player is upgradeable from the Nova Physics and is therefore future proof.
Build-7 boasts an incredible 150X rereading. The most powerful, error code free CD extraction player in the world. Uses no caching, and uses no error correction bits and no non-sequential memory ever. Was $13,000 new.
Asking $5095. 62% off retail. Please add 3% for paypal. Check my audiogon feedback under mikeg.
Memory Player with 300 cd library $11,000
Upgraded power supply $1000
DVD Audio Player/Burner $1000
See the Nova Physics Group testimonial page:
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!
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!
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.
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.
...music through your equipment that was able to fool me into thinking that somebody real was playing or singing in front of me.
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 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.
?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?
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.
