[rcag_ils]

Neil Young was on the news interviewed by the Mad Money guy Jim Cramer (he has a lot of Lps) for his PONO.

Basically he said MP3 was junk, his PONO would give what the artist want to give you, the real sound, he's an analog guy, never liked the digital stuff.

CD should have never been invented for music.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101489136

[fsimms]

He is selling Hi Rez FLAC music and players.  Lots of good marketing.

Bob

[sweetspot]

Neil Young was on the news interviewed by the Mad Money guy Jim Cramer (he has a lot of Lps) for his PONO.

Basically he said MP3 was junk, his PONO would give what the artist want to give you, the real sound, he's an analog guy, never liked the digital stuff.

CD should have never been invented for music.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101489136

Being an older guy, I have yet to get into downloads. My collection is still limited to cd & lp. Having said that, I guess it all depends on the original master. I have heard a lot of crappy cd's, but I have heard music on cd where the sound quality has just blown me away( eg: Patricia Barber, Ahmad Jamal) I guess it's all about the source & the engineering aspect.

[toocool4]

This looks interesting as he is trying to introduce good quality recording to the masses, 2 things about Pono setup that I think are missing.

Selling a good quality player without including a good quality headphone is a weakness in the setup. If people buy it and use less than quality headphones, sounds a bit pointless to me.

Also are they going to re-master the music they are going to sell on their e-shop?
The old saying about “garbage in garbage out” would ring true here. 

I have heard some really badly mastered CD and Vinyl. The worst mastered CD I have ever heard is Angelique Kidjo’s – Oyo, this thing is worse than listening to AM radio. The music content is excellent but I cannot listen to this album because it sounds terrible, shame on the mastering engineer.