1066familyman
Radio User
- Jan 15, 2008
- 15,185
Apologies if fixtures.
Plenty of music fans on here, and a fair amount of 'audiophiles' too no doubt.
So who's heard about Neil Young's Pono Music Player Project?, and what do you make of it?
In a nutshell, it's a kick against the quality of compressed music (mp3's) that it seems most people listen to nowadays (vinyl resurgence aside) and a bid to bring original studio quality recording to portable devices. Personally I can't tell the difference between 24 bit (studio quality) & 16 bit (cd quality) FLAC files that I've downloaded from a music service I subscribe to (played back on reasonable quality hi-fi separates), but I can usually tell the difference when it comes to comparing with mp3's.
I'm intrigued by this Pono Player idea.
Plenty of articles out there, but these two are quite good at dealing with the nuts & bolts:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/neil-youngs-pono-hi-def-mp3-player/#!FGdMD
http://techland.time.com/2012/10/03/who-cares-about-neil-youngs-ultra-high-quality-music-standard/
Plenty of music fans on here, and a fair amount of 'audiophiles' too no doubt.
So who's heard about Neil Young's Pono Music Player Project?, and what do you make of it?
In a nutshell, it's a kick against the quality of compressed music (mp3's) that it seems most people listen to nowadays (vinyl resurgence aside) and a bid to bring original studio quality recording to portable devices. Personally I can't tell the difference between 24 bit (studio quality) & 16 bit (cd quality) FLAC files that I've downloaded from a music service I subscribe to (played back on reasonable quality hi-fi separates), but I can usually tell the difference when it comes to comparing with mp3's.
I'm intrigued by this Pono Player idea.
Plenty of articles out there, but these two are quite good at dealing with the nuts & bolts:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/neil-youngs-pono-hi-def-mp3-player/#!FGdMD
http://techland.time.com/2012/10/03/who-cares-about-neil-youngs-ultra-high-quality-music-standard/