PONO - Where Music Lives

i think a lot of reactions to the ponoplayers form factor are misinterpreting its portability. based on the way the player sits horizontally in this image, i feel like its portability is meant for having it sit on your desk at home, grabbing it and throwing it in the car on the way to work, and then setting it down at your desk

it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player

the other thing you can't tell from that image is that the player is eight feet tall.

Yeah I don't get the impression it's for walking around

Just noticed "Herbie Handcock" in that pic. Jesus Christ who is making these fucking marketing materials?

Is there a porn star called Herbie Handcock? Kinda feels like there should be.

http://thequietus.com/articles/14724-neil-young-pono-player-review

am i missing something or did this person not actually listen to this player? the word "review" a little misleading...

Just reviewing the facts at hand.

Oh dear. Handcock. An illegal rip maybe? Or some PORNO on Neil's PONO?

If I want to hear "Heart of Gold", "Watermelon Man", and "Blowin' in the Wind" through fine speakers, I'll go to Chipotle.

Beatsmania: "Beats Music is meant to be a curated recommendation service first, playlist creator second. The company hired individual curators like Scott Plagenhoef, former editor of the music site Pitchfork, and it also formed partnerships with Target, Rolling Stone magazine, the fitness chain SoulCycle, Thrasher skateboarding magazine and the Academy of Country Music to create, presumably, better lists than you can on your own."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/technology/personaltech/beats-hopes-to-serve-up-new-sounds-in-a-novel-way.html

If fitness chain SoulCycle can create better lists than I can on my own I have failed as a person.

I'm awfully happy with my Sansa Clip that plays regular flacs. It's not high resolution, but it's also $45, and even with the best sound-proof earphones, I question how much a difference extra sound quality is going to make when I'm sitting on the subway. But I'll find out, I suppose...

not too dis the sansa ..
but a few years back when on a trip to chicago, my nokia phone got drowned out due to a session of booze excess.
so as a short term solution i bought a sansa ..
no idea if yours is the same, but damn, the build quality was cheap and nasty and the display was unreadable.
but far worse, the sound quality truly awful in comparison to what i was used to.
within 24 hours i got a refund and decided to wait until i got home and could replace the nokia.

Not sure what yours was. I'd vote for it as best bang-for-buck for music players. Definitely sounds better than iPhone/iPod.

i have to give this to neil young tho, "Herbie Handcock" is hilarious

http://static.techspot.com/images/products/mp3-players/org/sansa-clip-plus-main_932857548_o.jpg

i knew pono was reminding me of something...

https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/t1/10007444_720100121363134_2043088432_n.jpg

I remember when my soul rediscovered Super Mario Bros.

http://craphound.com/images/buddhamachine.jpg

lol @ Herbie Handcock, that is a delight.

http://bullmurph.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/herbie2.jpg

I mean, I acknowledge that vinyl sounds *different* but superior is in the ears of the listener.

I don't know, vinyl can be a completely analog reproduction of the sound. As long as you are digitizing music you are going to fall short of this standard, even with FLACs.

Handcock also gives new meaning to Headhunters, Vein Melter.

also Maiden Handjob

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?