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In Reply to: LONG LIVE THE CD!!! posted by chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com on May 15, 2007 at 12:04:54:
The memory player is pure, 100% snake oil marketed to suckers. A glance at their promotional material shows that they either don't have the slightest idea what they're talking about (see what they say about jitter) or they're deliberately obscuring it to make it sound like something worth buying.With a $30 CD-ROM my computer can make bit-perfect rips on nearly any CDs (badly scratched disks are an exception). I can verify this with accuraterip, which compares my rips against an online database. So my rips (and everyone elses that uses decent ripping software) are 100% perfect - every bit is correct. No need for a $10,000 memory player. Once the rip is made I can play it out using any number of devices - my favorite is the squeezebox. Now maybe the DAC or analogue stage in the memory player is good quality, but that's not what they're marketing the thing on (and if that's the issue, I can plug the SB digital out into any DAC, or buy a Transporter). So for less than $300 I get everything the memory player can do, only much more convenient and versatile.
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It's the best CD reproduction I've ever heard. Guess I should be listening to you, not to the music.
I really couldn't care less who or what you listen to. But this:http://www.novaphysicsgroup.com/TheWhitePaper.html
is total nonsense. Obviously that doesn't mean the thing sounds bad, but it's certainly not encouraging.
".....is total nonsense".
Again, I haven't heard the player so can't argue as vehemently as those who have, but you do admit that nothing written in a white paper will directly affect the actual sound of the player.I do take your point that if their are obvious 'mistakes' in he white paper it can raise the eyebrows and arouse suspicion in the competency of the product's designers, but if the product is able to stand on it's own merit I'd be inclined to think the designers knew exactly what they were doing.
Which aspects of the white paper would you say are nonsense in particular?
Best Regards,
Chris redmond.
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Did you actually look at the white paper? If you're interested, I can point out a few of the nonsensical things it said, but I don't think you are.
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This "discussion" reminds me of 3rd grade... what a waste of time.
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