Pono Music

How are they marketing it exactly, "the world largest MP3 player"?

Thanks, but I already have a phone, and the placebo effect doesn't work on me anyway.
 
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Probably one of the highest quality portable music players available, not that there isn't a good selection of similar quality players anyway.

Don't see a point to high resolution audio mind. The compact disc, and more to the point the red book audio standard set out for the CD, was really something very much of its time, in the best possible way. I can't imagine anything coming out today without the marketing forethought of leaving an upgrade pathway, and without any restrictions on the use of the data. But this is what the CD standard is, carefully selected to give audio quality matching or exceeding the human hearing capacity, at least for music playback, and storing nothing but pure data.

The application of 24/96 or 24/192 formats is only really relevant in studios where the additional edit points of a higher sample rate can be useful, as can the extended dynamic range afforded by 24 bit since audio may be recorded at well below 0dBFS to ensure it does not clip. In a final master however I see no point to anything higher than 16/44.1, just like the engineers at Philips/Sony didn't back in the 80s! Perhaps the only unfortunate thing about CD was that 44.1k sample rate choice, defined by the relation to video tape playback rates, it is a somewhat awkward conversion to/from the 48k standard which PCs tend to run on and digital video carries. Not too big an issue now though with high quality SRCs and dual clock DACs.
 
It's the year of our lord 2014 and people are getting excited over a portable music player that uses AA batteries and has no support for streaming services.

What's the point in emphasising quality on a portable player, you're never going to be in an environment to notice the difference.
 
Caged said:
It's the year of our lord 2014 and people are getting excited over a portable music player that uses AA batteries and has no support for streaming services.

What's the point in emphasising quality on a portable player, you're never going to be in an environment to notice the difference.
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Why would you want streaming in a device that is about sound quality, there's also a large market for these things. Look how many people have a portable DAC, there's loads just in the image of what you bought thread. Let alone the wider market. and in 3 days have made almost $3million for a product that doesn't even exist yet.
 
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This is ridiculous, and is clearly marketed to pretentious types.

Ok, the player has some unique things about it. But the recording quality - On a portable music player? Get out!

PonoMusic aims to preserve the feeling, spirit, and emotion that the artists put in their original studio recordings.
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The same as ANY half decent MP3 or FLAC.

Snake oil product.
 
Glaucus said:
Why would you want streaming in a device that is about sound quality, there's also a large market for these things. Look how many people have a portable DAC, there's loads just in the image of what you bought thread. Let alone the wider market. and in 3 days have made almost $3million for a product that doesn't even exist yet.
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A few people on an overclocking forum is a very niché market lol.

Just in case you didn't know, the figures on kickstarter are rarely real. In projects that I did software development work on the actual owners of the page pledged loads of money to their own project.
 
Lol, there is no need to pledge money in massive ones like this. Yes in some smaller ones.

And high end audio piles, is a very big market.
 
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