So I did the kickstarter donation for the player. I hesitated and did not get the $200 rate but at the $300 it's still $100 off. However I received a fairly criptic note from Pono, saying that October delivery could be pushed back to December. I could not tell if I got in under the wire, or if they set some sort of limit for phasing of delivery. Anyhow I am excited for Pono and hope it works well. Some may laugh, but it's important to me to have a user friendly system. I want my wife, son, nanny, guests, everyone to enjoy music. I love enjoying music together, so for me an accessible system is important. If Pono makes high rez easy for people I'm all for it. One thing that will work for me personally is that Pono looks to be a good authenticator of well recorded high rez music. Hopefully weeding faux-rez tracks.