Zd542 - my point about the article is that maybe for the 99 it is correct when it says that there isn't any value in high resolution files. As an example, consider an expensive high performance tire designed to go on a Ferrari. There is no question that this tire is better than the cheapest Walmart has to offer, but if my car (i.e. physical ability to hear, will never own quality audio equipment) isn't capable of translating any improvements to the drivers experience then the tires would be effectively the same. That driver doesn't care about the specs or reasons why the high performance tire is in fact better so trying to sell them to him is the equivalent of selling a freezer to an Eskimo. Products like Pono and the new Sony player are doing just this when it comes to people that will never really experience the potential difference because there is more to equation than just better files.
The end of pono?
I've just heard that Neil Young has given an interview where he says that they have made a number of mistakes, gone through a number of CEO's, with him now acting as CEO, and that he woul like to get out of the hardware side of things. Aparrently just becoming a licencing authority, e.g.
"Pono Approved" product.
Also, I read that Pono will be releasing hi rez Beatles files. Really? And I thought that the most recent vinyl was cut from down sampled copies and that nobody at on the production side felt it mattered to have hi Rez copies.
Anybody know what is really going on?
"Pono Approved" product.
Also, I read that Pono will be releasing hi rez Beatles files. Really? And I thought that the most recent vinyl was cut from down sampled copies and that nobody at on the production side felt it mattered to have hi Rez copies.
Anybody know what is really going on?
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