PONO - Where Music Lives

once again, ilm delivers

Watermelon Balls

Future Cock

Cock-It

Jizz Africa

Fat Prince Albert Rotunda

sex taint or something or other

hey did you hear that if neil young was the commissioner of the belgian police force, he would probably ban all staff from listening to janes addiction on their ipods?? apparently this rule would ensure that from now on, there would be strictly only pono for poirots

Thrust, featuring "Palm Grease"

Hey Dlp9001 have you seen this baby yet?
Sansa Clip Sport
http://m1.agitomedia.pl/image/700x700/160395ae8849e232d74b2891a9208e1e/odtwarzacze-przenosne/sandisk-mp3-sansa-sport-8gb-niebieski.2012769.2.jpg
Totally agree with your comments about the Sansa clip series, they are all I ever use now.

Brain Dance
Horn ets

fall lyrics?

No one has taken "Herbie Handcock" as their display name, right? Good.

A Tribute To Jackin' Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id0fgoYL6og

wangship journey to macchu picchu

Cantaloupes (if you know what I mean).

Sorry, Cantaloupes Island.

but now that they've dropped the price and also apparently improved it i'd probably get the Dragonfly if i had it to do over....it's been great but i've had a few overheating issues which kind of annoys me

yo I am listening through my newly-bought Dragonfly, I sorted my iTunes by "most played" so I could pick something I'd listened to a million times and fuckin'

dude

THANK YOU for this because it is a fucking revelation, I am going to cry for how much better everything sounds right now - strings, vocals, bass, absolutely everything

:)
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Cool glad you like it!

I think Akinyele beat Neil to the punch with "I'ma be like Herbie, and hand you a cock"

"I remember when my soul rediscovered Super Mario Bros."

original gameboy apparently had a sound chip that delivered warmer tones than the revisions.
i do remember the earbuds being the best sounding earbuds ever.

I had no idea! When Gameboy came out it really seemed like a magic box.

yeesh the gameboy audio nuts are not playing around!
http://www.herbertweixelbaum.com/comparison.htm

i wonder what they'd make of the pono

y'all using dragonfly, you listening via headphones or stero system?

^^^yeah, i'm wondering if a dragonfly would be good for my stereo setup

I'm putting it through headphones now - I'll have a chance to put it through the stereo at some point but the living room stereo is largely for vinyl, I don't have a CD player hooked up to it

ordered a Dragonfly also, can't use it until my bday next month though, but I am hyped

best cd player i've ever had. got it for christmas. sounds like a dream.

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081018215715/gtawiki/images/0/0a/PlayStation.png

Yeah the orig PlayStation has a cult following w audiophiles too

is dragonfly portable? I assume no?

super portable, but not "phone amp" portable. It's basically USB stick.

it comes with a tiny leatherette carrying case! I have only tested it on a little classical music, some vocal stuff, but it sounded great there too

oic. no good for my caveman 160gb ipod then. oh well. Someday I'll have a lifestyle that allows me to sit at home listening to music again :/

xpost

there are portable headphone amp/DACs, Jon. I've never owned one but some folks swear by them. I think a friend has Fiio E07K (or it's predecessor) and loves it.

Yeah, the Fiio E17 I have and talked about upthread will work with your iPod, although putting both of the in your pocket at the same time might be a bit awkward.

Dork friend has one in each front pocket and runs the connecting cord through his belt loops.

lol

the curse of skinny jeans. Cargo pants for the win.

since this has now become the default budding audiophile thread, how does Dragonfly compare say with nuforce uDAC (which also acts as a phone amp)?

"And by 2040, most individual visual-interface applications (home entertainment, business, mobile, etc.) will be headworn."

http://www.stereophile.com/content/audio-engineering-next-40-years

I bought this unit 3 months ago and finally discovered the setup guide last week on Audioquest's website. Understand on my iMac it simply works when you plug it in, and it does improve your sound quite a bit. When I purchased it I thought well thats it and it was noticeably better so I enjoyed it for about 3 months as a nice but not elite DAC. However, after walking through audioquest's setup guide and adjusting a few settings in sound preferences and itunes the sound really opened up to a new level. The sound stage sounds wider with a more vinyl like warmth. Today I tried the recommended itunes companion program called pure audio (it's pricey at $129) and now it is actually very close to my main high-fi system running a NAD 51 DAC to monitor audio gx speakers/ Denon amp. After installing the application the highs are better separated and the lows are more controlled. As I write this I am listening to "lights" by Journey

As I write this I am listening to "lights" by Journey

I just knew there was a punchline waiting for me at the other end of that paragraph.

that's, like, the best punchline

since this has now become the default budding audiophile thread, how does Dragonfly compare say with nuforce uDAC (which also acts as a phone amp)?

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, March 17, 2014 2:18 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i have the nuforce and, like i said upthread, i've been very happy...BUT...it does have a tendency to overheat and i googled around and this appears to be sort of known design flaw in it. it's not terrible, you just have to unplug it for awhile and let it cool down, but still that's kind of crappy.

so for that reason, and because it's been improved and price cut by $50 since i bought the nuforce, i'd do the dragonfly now if i had it to do over....

I am on vacation but I plan on buying a Dragonfly as soon as I get home, I have been looking at an M-Audio FireWire output but they seem expensive and obsolete and I don' really need inputs since I don't do recording. So thanks thread!

From my reading about this Dragonfly thing, it will make any file sound better, correct? Like you don't need to be using FLAC or anything for it to be noticeable? Because I ceased having an mp3 collection about two computers ago and use Spotify a lot. It sounds awesome though.

works w.spotify

yeah I'm listening to mp3s right now and I just a/b'd this little minor arpeggio in King Diamond's "Haunted" from Fatal Portrait - to get a true A/B I'd have to turn up the volume on the pre-Dragonfly signal but the "3D" aspect of the preamp is just so audible even with the pre-boost's volume lower

imo listen to stuff with guitar solos and a/b those, it's a place where you can really focus and notice a vast improvement. also just listen to more stuff with solos generally