Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC

Audiooracle - I'm sure there are some aspects of the memory player that are novel, however you may not know that I also have a long list of accomplishments over 30-years of engineering design and management. I was a design deam lead on the Pentium at Intel. I also invented the first scalable massively parallel supercomputer. I have 15 patents on this technology. And dont tell me that this is not relevant to audio. The digital design, power delivery, transmission-lines, grounding and shielding experience is extremely relevant. You dont get this kind of experience working for small companies designing audio gear, not to mention 7 years of modding all types of gear from many manufacturers and learning the best components to use for these mods.

The fact that you mention "timing errors" tells me that you dont posses the technical knowledge necessary to analyze these types of products. I hope you dont believe all of the hype that surrounds the marketing.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

>>you dont possess the technical knowledge necessary to analyze these types of products.<<

Good observation

>>I hope you dont believe all of the hype that surrounds the marketing.<<

He believes anything that leads to a sale. Check out the posting history. It speaks for itself.

Sbfx, thanks for the input.
What I heard which floored me (like it did for you) was a USB2 output converted to AES/EBU or S/PdIF via 24/96. I don't think it had the sound card doing much.
If you do get a chance to get 24/96 through your dac, then please let us know your feedback.

Steve that is an impressive background, but you are also discounting the fact that Mark Porzelli has an engineering background similar to yours, he and his father were involved in producing the LASER, and Mark had earned three master level degrees in engineering at age 14! Mark is no slouch in that department triple masters in Physics, Quantum Mechanics, and Chemistry!

Check out his bio he is a very intelligent man and is extrmely talented with audio engineering, just like you.

The best thing would be to do a shootout between your products and his. You may win they might win but one thing is certain you both are on the cutting edge of the new revolution in digital which will be hard drive based.

Audiofeil the fact that you sell on Audiogon makes your comments irrelevant how much experience in this field do you have I have a Memory Player on test currently what do you have? An Esoteric, and AMR? Both of these players no matter how good are not leading the field in what is the future.

I do sell conventional CD players as well, but for people looking for the best sounding digital it is products like Steve's the Memory Player and perhaps the VRS products.

Again Bill please elucidate as to your technical experience.

As per Steve and my understanding of timing errors, the Nova Physics people believe that there are timing errors from reading from the Hard drive and it is the way that the reassemble the data which makes the player work.

I am not the only one who believes in the sonic superiority of the Memory Player so does:

Clement Perry,
Greg Patan
Arnis Baglavis
Dave Clark
Harry Peason

and many others, so my feelings about the qualities of this technology are well documented.

Audiooracle - I welcome a shootout. I already have a request from Arnis, who heard some of my earlier offerings at CES in January. I respect his opinion, so he may be the first to do this comparison.

Steve N.