March 17, 20179 yr comment_759178 Not sure which is worse, that ponosucks website layout or the fact that some idiot decided to make a DAP in the shape of a triangular prism, and a bunch of other idiots along the way didn't stop it from happening. Someone should make one in the shape of a horse and call it Ponee Report
March 18, 20179 yr comment_759221 I purchased a Pono player at the Kickstarter phase. The damn thing sounds really good, I guess the Hansen engineering had something to do, but other than the couple of Herbie Hancock albums this edition had loaded, I haven't been tempted to buy any of the Pono's music. Since it has a big capacity due to the support of microSD cards up to 128GB, I use it when away from home for a few days. Not using it on daily commutes, the shape is just nuts and very impractical. I wish they had made it in a regular flat prism shape. Report
March 31, 20179 yr comment_760582 Really poor timing on old Neil's part. Ten minutes after he comes out with a stupidly shaped (if great sounding) DAP, phones start supporting USB DACs and there's Red Book streaming and even rectangular DAPs mostly become small paperweights. Oops Report
April 23, 20179 yr comment_762616 Meanwhile ... It's going to be called Xstream (no, really) http://pitchfork.com/news/73040-neil-youngs-new-streaming-service-is-xstream-no-really/ http://www.vulture.com/2017/04/neil-young-announces-streaming-service-xstream.html https://gizmodo.com/neil-youngs-painful-rebranding-of-his-music-service-won-1794565958 https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/22/15394224/neil-young-high-quality-streaming-music-service-xstream-pono http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-preps-new-high-quality-streaming-service-xstream-w478281 https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/04/neil-young-is-launching-a-high-fidelity-streaming-service-called-xstream/ http://www.spin.com/2017/04/neil-young-xstream-empire-streaming-service/ Report
March 5, 20188 yr comment_785957 https://www.computeraudiophile.com/ca/bits-and-bytes/pono-is-officially-dead-r695/ "Pono lasted from December 16, 2011 until its dissolution on December 21, 2017. Based on the Delaware dissolution documents, Pono had an outstanding debt of $2,519,955 and its creditors moved to foreclose on its assets." Report
March 6, 20188 yr comment_785996 Was just asking about Pono status the other day and correctly assumed that it was belly up. Oh wel, seemingly good intentions... Report
March 6, 20188 yr comment_786004 6 hours ago, robm321 said: Rectangle > triangle? Or is there more to it? I doubt it. Weren't they oblique about the resolution of their files? Audiophiles like their numbers. Report
March 6, 20188 yr comment_786008 Nothing about that product made sense. Poor aesthetics on the player, smoke, mirrors and snake oil on the sound quality, and yet another file format that no one else adopted. Report
March 6, 20188 yr comment_786010 Oh, I thought the Pono stuff used FLAC- what did it use? Edited March 6, 20188 yr by Kattefjaes Report
March 6, 20188 yr comment_786012 oh, my bad, I guess it did, I remembered something different, but I guess by the time it became a product they'd given that up. Report
March 6, 20188 yr comment_786021 Now that it's mentioned, I do remember some nonsensical claim(s) early on in an interview (I think) that got some people stirred up. Edited March 6, 20188 yr by robm321 Report
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