dimfer
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one of the first companies to use/design computer optimized for highend audio is back..
I am a Memory Player user since 2008, I am still using a unit which Mark Porzilli and Sam Laufer last updated in 2014.
I haven't spoken nor communicated with Mark for around two years now, but their new website is now up and running and the MP64 page at Laufer Teknik site is also now updated.
I haven't met Sam Laufer personally yet, but I think he's a cool guy. He helped me quite a bit in setting up my unit and answered all my questions when Mark was not available.
Here's a picture taken with Mark and Carolyn Porzilli, with Mark's then business partner (restoration of Melos/Pipedreams stuff) Rudy after having dinner together somewhere in Newport Beach.. up until this meeting (Newport Beach Show 2013), Mark was still not happy with how his ideas were received and dismissed by the audiophile community as marketing hype. He would come nowhere near the Show. Computer based audio was not accepted yet as a high performance audio player when the first MP came out, and while Mark was highly praised for his contribution in the design of the Scaena speakers which came out at about the same time, Memory Player was generally frowned upon. I think he was just ahead of the times, and one of the very first to emphasize the importance of jitter reduction and the first to tackle the problem by using a software, instead of external clock. I joked with him that his thinking was too far outside the box that's why audiophiles were not getting him. Mark told me that the MP is his pet project and something that he want to be remembered for, that's why he took all the negative comments personally.
Mark is very soft spoken but very passionate in what he does. Very smart too (reportedly has IQ of over 200). I think most people are not aware that Mark is a computer geek as well, he said he spend incredible amount of money on computers personally.
Mark told me back then that digital audio is developing and improving faster than anything else in higheaudio, but how does the 2013 version of MP64 fare vs other digital products of today? The great Blizzard was not happy when I reported to him that a couple of local audiophiles (on separate occasions) preferred the MP64 over his NAA/server (with HQP/Roon) approach feeding PS Audio Direct Stream via Uptone Regen Amber. I still consider my MP as the most uncolored digital playback system I heard.
The full blown new MP64 32 core is $55k, I think it is beyond my reach at this point and won't be getting it no matter how Clement Perry rave about it. I am hoping my current unit is compatible with some of the individual items now mentioned at the website.
I am a Memory Player user since 2008, I am still using a unit which Mark Porzilli and Sam Laufer last updated in 2014.
I haven't spoken nor communicated with Mark for around two years now, but their new website is now up and running and the MP64 page at Laufer Teknik site is also now updated.
I haven't met Sam Laufer personally yet, but I think he's a cool guy. He helped me quite a bit in setting up my unit and answered all my questions when Mark was not available.
Here's a picture taken with Mark and Carolyn Porzilli, with Mark's then business partner (restoration of Melos/Pipedreams stuff) Rudy after having dinner together somewhere in Newport Beach.. up until this meeting (Newport Beach Show 2013), Mark was still not happy with how his ideas were received and dismissed by the audiophile community as marketing hype. He would come nowhere near the Show. Computer based audio was not accepted yet as a high performance audio player when the first MP came out, and while Mark was highly praised for his contribution in the design of the Scaena speakers which came out at about the same time, Memory Player was generally frowned upon. I think he was just ahead of the times, and one of the very first to emphasize the importance of jitter reduction and the first to tackle the problem by using a software, instead of external clock. I joked with him that his thinking was too far outside the box that's why audiophiles were not getting him. Mark told me that the MP is his pet project and something that he want to be remembered for, that's why he took all the negative comments personally.
Mark is very soft spoken but very passionate in what he does. Very smart too (reportedly has IQ of over 200). I think most people are not aware that Mark is a computer geek as well, he said he spend incredible amount of money on computers personally.
Mark told me back then that digital audio is developing and improving faster than anything else in higheaudio, but how does the 2013 version of MP64 fare vs other digital products of today? The great Blizzard was not happy when I reported to him that a couple of local audiophiles (on separate occasions) preferred the MP64 over his NAA/server (with HQP/Roon) approach feeding PS Audio Direct Stream via Uptone Regen Amber. I still consider my MP as the most uncolored digital playback system I heard.
The full blown new MP64 32 core is $55k, I think it is beyond my reach at this point and won't be getting it no matter how Clement Perry rave about it. I am hoping my current unit is compatible with some of the individual items now mentioned at the website.
