[potsie]

I am not big on YouTube or iTunes or any of that because of the poor quality of music. A few years back Neil Young started the Kickstarter campaign for his high definition music player (Pono) and download service. This got me really excited and I backed it.. I think it brought in about 6 million??? This really started the release of A lot of HD audio. I started gathering all my music in FLAC.

I, too, backed pono on Kickstarter. I couldn't live without it. Not kidding. I'm lucky to be able to listen to music daily at work so I use my pono approx. 4-6 hours/day, every day. If my house was burning down I would save my family first, then my pono.

In combination with some top-notch Shure in-ear monitors I splurged on last year, and any HD FLAC (Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Doors, Tom Petty, Nirvana), I believe my pono provides the best f u c k ing sound possible, bar none.

Over the past decade I've only bought Hip, PJ, & Matt Mays cds, but since I acquired my pono I've spent wayyy too much on HD FLACs & 24 bit music from ProStudioMasters & HDTracks. After listening to the 24 bit version of Van Halen - Van Halen I was hooked. It was as if it were the first time listening to it; even though I'd listened to it 10s of thousands of times on cassette & cd.

I really, really, really wonder why more bands/record companies don't release everything in 24bit/96Hz or 192Hz?

Please excuse me whilst I go buy Ryan Adams' Prisoner 24bit/96Hz for $14 on ProStudioMasters!!

Would love the opportunity to listen to a Pono at some point to see what I'm missing out on. I read recently that Neil is trying to bring Pono sound to streaming and phones. I have no idea how he would do this since it would seem sound quality would be limited to the device the music was being played on. However, if he turns his attention from churning out half-baked albums and concentrates on coming up with a solution to this problem, I have faith that Uncle Neil will get it done.

From Rolling Stone (December 12, 2016):

The Future of Pono
Young is hoping to pivot his high-res music company – which had been focused on its Toblerone-shaped player and a download store – toward a hi-res streaming service. "We're pushing towards getting a presence in phones," says Young (though iPhones' internal chips are not currently compatible with higher-than-CD-quality sound). He's working with a Singaporean company on a method to "maintain our quality level when we go to streaming."

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