What is new with the Memory Player?

As Audio Oracle reports, the Memory Player ("MP") was in a number of rooms. It was in the Laufer Teknik set-up featuring Behold equipment and speakers, which I heard for thirty minutes on Friday night. Thirty minutes is totally inadequate to evaluate high-end equipment, and the system, room and music were totally unfamiliar to me. That said, the system sounded damn good (as it should have sounded given the price). I heard some overhang on male voice, but it takes work (usually a lot of work) to get speakers to perform at their best in a given room and it was the first night of the show, so this is not a criticism, merely an observation.

I did not hear the MP in Audio Oracle's room, as they were still preparing the player at that point (the MP has to be programmed as part of its installation).

By the way, Dave (a/k/a "Audio Oracle"), you had a very good set-up. Congrats.

Kana813: It was me, the author of the thread, who had it shut down because (i) you had polluted it with shilling for another CD player and (ii) attempted to harass me through e-mail.

Scaena1: Were you intending to mention that Scaena Loudspeakers and Nova Physics, maker of the Memory Player, are basically the same people, i.e., Bishoff and Porzilli? I've read your contributions to this thread several times and for whatever reason, that detail does not come through.

I heard your Memory Player in the Laufer Teknics room at the Stereophile show and the sound was superb. You should really take credit for this first-rate product.

Sceana1: Thank you for the response, but knowing a bit about the hi-fi industry, I'm still betting that the left side of Messrs. Porzilli and Bischoffs' garage is Memory Player and the right side of the garage is Sceana. "Scaena and Nova Physics are two completely independent companies"?? -- I would be very surprised if these two names have even been registered as d/b/a's.

The common involvement of these gentlemen with "Nova Physics" and "Sceana" should always be disclosed where the two products are shown together or are discussed publicly together as you have done here -- the use of one manufacturer's product at a show by another manufacturer, or one manufacturer's discussion of that fact in a public forum such as Audiogon, is a strong endorsement of that product, and any commonality of ownership, management and/or design team in such instances needs to be known by potential buyers.

The above said, I again reiterate that the Memory Player sounded great to me, and someone whose opinion I greatly respect has told me that the Sceana speakers are likewise superb.

Sceana1: Your first three posts to this thread (on 7/17, 7/18 and 7/24) very much give the impression that the Memory Player is completely unrelated to the Sceana speakers, but you now confirm that they share some of the same principals. If AudioOracle mentioned the relationship earlier in this very, very long thread, I apologize, but I trust you will appreciate that there has been a great deal of shilling in a variety of forms occurring on this site of late, and I again note that your posts very much imply that there is no relationship between the two companies.

In addition, Messrs. Porzilli and Bischoff are simply not household names to audiophiles as you state -- I happen to know of Melos and Pipedreams, but a large portion of the people reading this thread do not.

PS - I would not have suggested that these gentlemens' endeavors are a garage operation if they had actually managed to bring the Memory Player to market as a real product. Only a handful have been made, but the thing has supposedly been in existence for well over a year -- this is very typical of a two-channel garage operation. My comment was unnecessary, but I perceived a failure to disclose an affiliation between related parties deserving of ridicule.