Hard to believe there is so much negativity. He released it on Vinyl as that is the ultimate sound as he's been saying.  You can bet it will be for sale to download after Pono goes live.  

Neil Young released a new album this weekend in vinyl only.

They don't accept anything but the euro.

I'm interested in knowing if many people use the site...JRiver.com...for music downloads, etc.  What are the pros and cons?

That's a French site.  

If reasons I won't bore you with I need to be able to download single cuts (songs) and while amazon would be perfect I believe they are all MP3.

The rule has always been to use the highest % on speakers (headphones) followed by amp and source. One can always upgrade the extra equipt.

My reason for liking PONO Neil Young has to do with the fact that at the present you cannot find popular music for download that is not MP3.  All I want to be able to do is download music that is at least CD quality.  The only music available is stuff that record stores used to practically give...

Thanks that's a good list but none of those sites has so called popular music.  If you want Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, etc you are out of luck.  

I'm familiar with that one but they only sell albums, would be nice to find a place that sells singles.  

Which online sites provide music uploads of CD quality or better?

Only a double blind will tell who's right.

Speaking of wasting money I know someone who had a super audio set-up and he was so concerned about the electricity he had the power company run a dedicated line into his house just for the audio.  

Those are excellent points.  I would never have heard of it if I hadn't seen Neil Young on CNBC talking about it.  For years I have hated the fact so many young people had never heard real music just MP3.  I was not aware that people could download hi-res music.  It may not be the first but it...

Thanks, that's what I figured.

I'm totally familiar with S&D but that's not the case with these two items.

Curious as  to why at Amazon the Beyerdynamic DT-990-Pro 250 ohm model sells for $167. and yet the non "Pro" 250 ohm version sells for $302.  ?? 

Curious as to whether someone will have the Schiit Magni Amp and Modi DAC?  After all the comments I'd like to hear those.  

Hope I can, I was really kidding.  Almost sounds like $10k/ft speaker cable.  At my age I doubt if I could tell the difference.

Sounds like the old joke about the Brooklyn Bridge.

I hate to say it but $1300 for a pair of headphones seems rather extreme.  I may come, since I live in CLT, just to give a listen to those.  

This was just sent out by email following the 5 ohm reference.   "Some have expressed concerns about the output impedance of the PonoPlayer being 5 ohms. It is important to note that it is trivial to make the output impedance arbitrarily low -- simply add more and more and more feedback. The...

Curious as to why 5 ohms would be a negative?  

And if you have some money left over you'd better get several of these.  

If someone wants to spend a fortune on cable wire here's the ultimate.     Expensive Wire and Insulators