Julf wrote: > Not sure why they would do any better than hdtracks, qobuz and the > others...
Good point. early interviews on Pono indicated that the record labels were on board to produce high res, better (re)mastered versions of albums to provide to Pono. And at that point it seemed that Pono would be another format (not FLAC, etc.). But recently they make announcements that they only mean FLAC files (which is a good thing by the way) and moreover, several comments that Pono store will have to take what the labels provide them (with Pono store only *hoping* for "better" masters). So it seems that Pono store will probably be just like these other hires sources. And we know that at hdtracks, for example, one may get really good 24/96 or 24/192 files from good masters or different masters from some other release OR one may end up with a 16/44.1 CD quality album that has simply been upconverted to 24/192. Not that there is anything wrong with 16/44.1, but it seems to be a ripoff to sell hires files with no transparency regarding their source. *Location 1:* VortexBox 4TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > SqueezePlay *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S & iPad2 (iPeng7 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Streaming - Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101133 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
