batteraziiz
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Where did Neil Young get the name pono from? The only pono I know is a hawaiian word.
Straight from the kickstarter:
Where did Neil Young get the name pono from? The only pono I know is a hawaiian word.
Straight from the kickstarter:
What is PonoMusic?
"Pono" is Hawaiian for righteous. What righteous means to our founder Neil Young is honoring the artist’s intention, and the soul of music. That’s why he’s been on a quest, for a few years now, to revive the magic that has been squeezed out of digital music. In the process of making music more convenient – easier to download, and more portable – we have sacrificed the emotional impact that only higher quality music can deliver. However, the world has changed in the last 10 years – technology has solved some of the underlying problems that forced that tradeoff. You no longer have to choose between quality and convenience when listening to music – you can have both. This is the fundamental idea behind PonoMusic.
Straight from the kickstarter:
What is PonoMusic?
"Pono" is Hawaiian for righteous. What righteous means to our founder Neil Young is honoring the artist’s intention, and the soul of music. That’s why he’s been on a quest, for a few years now, to revive the magic that has been squeezed out of digital music. In the process of making music more convenient – easier to download, and more portable – we have sacrificed the emotional impact that only higher quality music can deliver. However, the world has changed in the last 10 years – technology has solved some of the underlying problems that forced that tradeoff. You no longer have to choose between quality and convenience when listening to music – you can have both. This is the fundamental idea behind PonoMusic.
Ok so what's the Hawiian for Self Righteous?
English Word Hawaiian Word
self Iho, kino, pono'i
Righteous pono
so => Iho pono, kino pono, or pono'i pono take... your pick.
OriginallyOk so what's the Hawiian for Self Righteous?
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Bono ?
With all this Hawaiian talk we need lee in here
Hey lee.....
ta liki liki liki la kino pono
Some people would answer: It's ugly. It's heavy. It's bulky. I don't want to pay for mics and pre-amps I'll never use - even if the bang for the buck is enormous compared to something like a HiFi-Man HM-901. It only offers folder browsing. I can't search by artist. I can't search by album. I can't search by song. It doesn't have repeat. It doesn't have shuffle. It doesn't support playlists. Its headphone out is weak. I don't want to carry a portable amp. It doesn't have an OEM DAC chip I recognize. I don't need 192 kHz PCM capability. I don't need DSD capability. I like small all-in-one DAPs with expensive, proprietary battery packs that only last 5 to 6 hours on a charge. I like torturing myself with products that don't work the way they're intended. I love waiting for firmware upgrades and applying them regularly, never actually achieving a bug-free experience.
I don't suffer any such thinking, myself, but I'm holding out (feeling foolish for doing so), waiting for a less expensive, bug-free solution. Meanwhile, my PCM-M10 is holding down the fort.
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
Mike