Archimago wrote:
> You're welcome! It was a fun night of measuring and thinking about what
> I wanted to say about this piece of equipment after playing with it for
> the last couple months off and on.
>
> I think the Pono saga has been a fascinating one to watch and comment on
> over the last few years - essentially last 3 years. A fascinating
> exploration of technological evangelism by a guy (NY) who I believe
> truly believes what he says (eg. hi-res sounds like "God", MP3's having
> literally 8% or whatever of "the sound", analogue being unquestionably
> the hi-res standard, and countless others) despite the lack of even face
> validity for anyone who spends time with the technology or actually
> honestly do some testing and experimentation for themselves. Then to see
> the millions of $$$ of Kickstarter support for these claims, the merger
> of fact (yes, hi-res music can be more objectively "accurate") and
> fantasy ("revolutionary" sound). Ultimately the commingling of the
> audiophile "cult of personalities" - Neil Young's legendary status as a
> musician mixed with someone who supposedly knows how the technology
> works...
>
> To a smaller extent we can say this about Ayre as well - I would bet if
> Meridian stayed the hardware designer Bob Stuart would be all over it
> and we'd be looking at the Meridian 'apodizing' minimum phase filter - I
> guess he had other fish to fry in the form of MQA.
>
one question is whether or not the rather obvious treble roll-off is
audible:
18530
The Pono (white line) is about 0.5 dB down @10 KHz and about 5 dB down
at @20 KHz. Severe enough to perhaps even be audible.
What is unknown from these measurements is the corresponding phase
response and its corresponding effects on transient response.
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