Pono Player nearly out !!!
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/09/ponoplayer/
http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/09/ponoplayer/
Am I missing something here? Is he going to remaster from the original recordings and release them in hi-rez? If he's just going to make currently releases available in hi-rez a lot of people will be very disappointed. Im trying to think of an application that player is suitable for where you can also tell any difference between 256k and hi-rez.
Are you supposed to use it in a listening room with 1000 dollar IEMs?
I heard they'll have a function where you switch between hi-rez and "low-res". That should cause a lot of amusement.
If however everythings getting remastered AND those remasters are not available elsewhere then this could be big. But we'll see. Young talking about mp3s having only "5% of the data" does not reassure me.
1,000-2,000 high resolution albums… 128GB… something does not add up here…
As Michael Lavorgna of www.audiostream.com because he is going to interview Neil Young about it soon!
http://www.audiostream.com/content/hello-neil-young
So an album will be between 120 and 240 MB. So it cant be lossless 96/24, cant it?
What I already like about this player is the fact that the image accompanying every article, displays the Dire Straits. And boy, do I like Dire Straits. Awaiting my X5, but do hope this will be something decent. More awareness for sound quality is never a bad thing.
And shows "unknown artist" on the second line of each entry - as if there may be a tagging or tag-reading problem that they can't even get right for the PR shots - show a really thorough and thought-out approach
Cheers,
Andy