http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/pono-player-review-a-tall-refreshing-drink-of-snake-oil/1/
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none of this will make me revive my Technics turntable ever. i was glad
when i was digitizing my LP collection. i will never ever spin a record
again. i made sure everything was at its best when i digitized - clean
the -nearly new- needle, microfiber brush on the record etc etc. never
saw the
Hmmm. Still no measurements yet!
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ralphpnj wrote:
Thanks! A very enjoyable read and a real hands on, real world review.
Good, I thought it was too. Did you follow the link to the tear down ?
http://mikebeauchamp.com/2014/12/pono-player-teardown/ in case you
missed it.
A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee.
I have never understood the resurgence of vinyl and the insistence of
those who swear it sounds better. Perhaps my limited budget for gear
will forever condemn me to enjoying digital music and missing the
superior pops and hiss of my youth but I don't plan on buying back in
and will have to make
I do not pretend to understand all this, but sometimes the folks making
decisions are not qualified to do so from the example above
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Quite interesting. Thanks for posting this. I can remember one of the
1st CD's I bought was a recording of the 1812 Overture. I was able to
hear things that were not there before. Or so I thought/believe. I did
not have the same recording in the vinyl medium to do a comparison. the
precept of the
CD as a medium is arguably superior. High resolution is definitely
superior.
But, and here's the but, check out the dynamic range comparisons of
modern CD releases versus the vinyl releases at
http://dr.loudness-war.info/ and you'll see why vinyl can be a source of
much better recordings these
paulster wrote:
But, and here's the but, check out the dynamic range comparisons of
modern CD releases versus the vinyl releases at
http://dr.loudness-war.info/ and you'll see why vinyl can be a source of
much better recordings these days.
*Can* be. Often isn't. Exactly the same master will
Archimago wrote:
Hmmm. Still no measurements yet!
Yes no measurement ? But it's seems nice enough portable player with
good headphone drive capability actually quite ok.
But as stated that would not sell , let's get on the HRA hype bandwagon
:D
Considering that many headfi guys lug around
paulster wrote:
This is a great example of a record company really getting it wrong
And for an example of a company really getting it wrong, how about Neil
Young and his Pono claiming that dynamic compression and the loudness
wars are caused by mp3?
To try to judge the real from the false
What is interesting is too see again more is better which is really
BS. As somebody else pointed out in another thread, it is confusion
between perception, psychology and theory. 16 bits @ 44.1KHz gives you a
certain quantity of information (in the meaning of information's theory)
and this is
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Wirrunna wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/pono-player-review-a-tall-refreshing-drink-of-snake-oil/1/
Thanks! A very enjoyable read and a real hands on, real world review.
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