What is new with the Memory Player?

Tbg - it was a special audition after exhibit hours arranged by Clement Perry with Rick Schultz. Went from 8 -10pm. That's probably why you didn't notice it.

"In comparisons of the original CD recording vs. those uploaded and played back through the HD of the MP this was also evident."

The MP does not playback from the HD. The HD is only used for storage. Files are played back via the solid state flash memory.

To Bigamp,

I got my Memory Player back after George did a couple of upgrades to my player, which I got during HE 2007, and right after the show we were too busy putting the sound rooms back together again.

Anyway there is more to the Memory Player than what you surmise: for one: the software is quite different than EAC and a ram disc is still ram setup as a virtual space on the hard drive, which means you will still have timing errors.

There are a lot of hidden tricks which they are doing.

On the Memory Player you rip the data without ECC to the Memroy and then load the Memory onto a hard drive to store the data, then on playback you reverse the process.

You can playback from the Hard drive which Bigamp would be working exactly as you describe, you can also playback from memory which sounds much superior! I did those tests this weekend.

The Memory Player sounds like no other digital source I have heard, it really sounds like you are listening to a live recording!

How is their DAC? Or, do you use another one , feeding it from the memory player?
Also, is there a way to use a hard drive to load the songs to the MP? The reason I'm asking is that I am going to computer-based audio in some way shape or form, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it.

Thanks,
David

Audiooracle:

Anyway there is more to the Memory Player than what you surmise: for one: the software is quite different than EAC and a ram disc is still ram setup as a virtual space on the hard drive, which means you will still have timing errors.

Actually, a ramdisk is the opposite of what you describe. A ramdisk is a virtual hard drive IN RAM. It's a chunk of RAM that appears as a hard disk to the computer. They're fast, because they're RAM and there's no disk access (and no timing errors). And since the ramdisk RAM is reserved and contiguous, no other data is mixed in with the music data.

I believe MTU has been using ramdisks to play songs since the late 1970s. And I believe they offered Apple II software/hardware that allowed manipulation and playback of songs from ramdisks in the early 1980s.

I'm not trying to knock the MP. If it sounds great, then great. It's definitely a step in the right direction for audiophiles who don't want to mess with PCs.