Neil Young's PonoMusic player (2 Viewers)

[hydromancer]

Why is there not a green one ?

 

[dudley]

Surprised no-one is hating on the headphones

 

[ann post]

i like the ethics of building hi fi audio stuff

market research is also valuable

FiiO's nifty $200 portable high-resolution music player is a knockout | The Audiophiliac - CNET News

 

[washingcattle]

i like the ethics of building hi fi audio stuff

market research is also valuable

FiiO's nifty $200 portable high-resolution music player is a knockout | The Audiophiliac - CNET News

Ethics ?

So they're not made in China by slaves?

 

[ann post]

Ethics ?

So they're not made in China by slaves?

i like the ethics of hi-fi audio

not

i like the ethics of the modern world systems of manufacture

read it again.

 

[washingcattle]

i like the ethics of building hi fi audio stuff

I feel some winding up coming on


Building : the action or trade of constructing something.

synonyms:




construction, erection, putting up, raising, establishment, fabrication,production, assembly

 

[ann post]

can we have a 'youknowwhatimeanandaretryingtogetarise' button pete?

 

[washingcattle]

can we have a 'youknowwhatimeanandaretryingtogetarise' button pete?

You mean a "Heh heh heh" button ?

 

[washingcattle]

 

[Cormcolash]

PornoMusic

Only reason I came on here was to ask how the pornomusic was going

 

[Jerry Twig]

Is that a toblerone in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

 

[washingcattle]

Is that a toblerone in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

Give it a belt of a cold spoon ya blagard.

 

[lemonbravo]

Bandcamp, HDtracks, Boomkat and others already sell flac. Bandcamp has no restriction on sample rates/bit depth of the tracks you upload, other than the filesize. (max 600MB per track.)

This all looks like mostly bollocks, but all in a nicely branded space, so a small amount of people will make a lot of money and nothing else will happen. That testimonial video is full of so much crap I had to lie down for 2 days in a darkened room such was my rage.
Anthony fecking Kollidoscope talking about audio quality, from a band whose fans petitioned to get their albums remastered by a different engineer because it sounded so crap. Eddie bleed'in Vedder! I listened to that remixed/mastered version of Ten last year and it's mixed/mastered so loud it sounds like ass hat. If those guys spent more time caring about what their final albums sounded like and not what what bloody sample rate they're using then I might have an ounce of respect for what this bollocks is.
They talk in that video as if they've never been inside a control room of a studio.
So much shite.

I'd wager 0.05% of people record/mix/master at 24bit/192kHz.
Are they going to go back in time and re-record/mix/master all the albums that have been released?

It just looks like a really great high end portable player and a slicker online store/system than HDtracks/bandcamp etc.

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The reason they developed a high end player was that, contrary to Youngs first rantings, digital audio formats are fine as they are.
They're using Flac, something that's been around since 2001 and has only been slightly modified in that time!

Anyone expecting this to be anything other than a really great playback device will be disappointed.

 

[lemonbravo]

I'd say this will really damage HDtracks though.

 

[ann post]

...talk in that video as if they've never been inside a control room of a studio...

This is my most hated possible activity by modern musicians.

 

[ann post]

As i said on twitter, hi res players are widely available already with decent preamps for way less money.

 

[chris d]

Hi, I'm Neil Young. Fuck you motherfuckers. Fancy a jam?

 

[GO]

Hi, I'm Neil Young. Fuck you motherfuckers. Fancy a jam?

No fuck off.

Unless you pay us in ponos

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

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I was listening to Ragged Glory recently and wondering how long before he incorporates Pono into the lyrics of that song.

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