arnyk wrote:
...
It is big enough to look impressive to casual readers, but to me it
seems to be pointed in the wrong direction to impress their target
market.
...
That there is the key.
As far as I can tell, all of this rumination around specialized filters
to modify the impulse response
arnyk wrote:
Most interesting plot might be:
'Pono Player Measurements at Stereophile.com'
(http://www.stereophile.com/content/pono-ponoplayer-portable-music-player-measurements)
18011
Fig.3 Pono PonoPlayer, frequency response at 12dBFS into 100k ohms
with data sampled at: 44.1kHz
Apesbrain wrote:
Another recent review and some measurements here:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/pono-ponoplayer-portable-music-player
Most interesting plot might be:
'Pono Player Measurements at Stereophile.com'
ralphpnj wrote:
The plot thickens (pun intended). Could it be that Pono's glorious
sound with high resolution material is due it's less than stellar
reproduction of standard resolution material? Just saying.
Truthfully, this is not a big enough of a flaw to create a glorious
sound
It would be even more interesting to look at some of the HD tracks and
check whether they still contain MP3 artifacts...
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Pono just announced a new feature: PonoRevealer. It downloads the same
song in multiple resolutions to your Pono player and then allows you to
change resolutions in the middle of a song. Resolutions include: MP3
(Amazon), AAC (Mastered for iTunes), CD (44.1/16), 96/24 and 192/24.
'PonoRevealer'
stroom wrote:
http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/pono-player-and-promises-fulfilled
The trouble is you read that and you think it's going to sound amazing
with well-matched headphones, based on the fact that they've used the
DACs in fully differential mode, have +/- power supplies, and
Recent review and some measurements here:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/pono-ponoplayer-portable-music-player
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stroom wrote:
http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/pono-player-and-promises-fulfilled
Interesting review a lot off things about which headphones to use .
So the designer is of the zero feedback faith and apodising filter faith
.
Any one used the store yet to buy some music .
http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/pono-player-and-promises-fulfilled
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Apesbrain wrote:
Another recent review and some measurements here:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/pono-ponoplayer-portable-music-player
Thanks that put even more insigths to it .
Where to start , if you for religious reasons resorts to filters that
re-introduce aliasing artifacts in the
paulster wrote:
I'd be interested to see measurements. I've had two of them, one that
sounded noticeably different to the other (which is a QC worry), but
neither of them could hold a candle to the other couple of 9018-based
DACs I have in my systems. The owner of one of them came over all
Mnyb wrote:
If it has a frequency response problem and muddy bass when driving
headphones that makes me want to see the measurements even more , looks
like a classic impedance mismatch problem
But also when driving a preamp in line out mode, which should be an easy
load. Same issue.
Two
Mnyb wrote:
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 multiple box rigs in thier
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/pono-player-review-a-tall-refreshing-drink-of-snake-oil/1/
A camel is a racehorse designed by a committee.
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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.
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
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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I think wombat is joking :) .
The general pointlessness of DSD ( as a consumer playback system ) is
another topic
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Mike Sargent wrote:
Actually, it's quite a good album. Don't let your biases prevent you
from listening to good music.
Mike
While it's good to see/hear Lady Gaga expanding her range, she still has
a lot to learn about how to sing standards but at least she is trying
and hopefully learning
Mike Sargent wrote:
Actually, it's quite a good album. Don't let your biases prevent you
from listening to good music.
Mike
I actually like standards albums. That's fine. I'm not referring
necessarily to the quality of the performance (subjective), but rather
that the recording and
Archimago wrote:
I keep seeing these Bennett/Lady Gaga Sony ads... Ghastly! I can't see
that album being a good ambassador for high-resolution.
Actually, it's quite a good album. Don't let your biases prevent you
from listening to good music.
Mike
Mnyb wrote:
I think wombat is joking :) .
The general pointlessness of DSD ( as a consumer playback system ) is
another topic
Myself also knows no one being interestet to much in dsd luckily. It
could be nice to get some old SACD masterings though. dsd is a prime
example for wishfull
Mnyb wrote:
I think wombat is joking :) .
The general pointlessness of DSD ( as a consumer playback system ) is
another topic
DSD maybe pointless as a consumer playback system (which it most
definitely is) but DSD is great as a marketing tool.
Remember always FOLLOW THE MONEY!
Living
Wombat wrote:
Also Pono realized dsd is a growing market
http://www.audiostream.com/content/pono-play-dsd
Wonder if they stop selling PCM then of the ones available as dsd
because they want only the best!
I don't know if DSD is a growing market, Wombat. i actually know of
nobody in my
Interesting discussion boys... Lets open up a new thread on
multichannel! I as well have been listening to more multichannel over
the last year and slowly putting a library together.
Would be interested in how you all are doing the playback side...
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atrocity wrote:
By the way, there's been an interesting trickle of old quadraphonic
mixes making it to DVD-A and (especially) SACD lately.
More on Blu-Ray than DVD-A (by a long shot). I'm really enjoying High
Fidelity Pure Audio. Many are multi-channel, including some you wouldn't
expect like
Also Pono realized dsd is a growing market
http://www.audiostream.com/content/pono-play-dsd
Wonder if they stop selling PCM then of the ones available as dsd
because they want only the best!
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monoblocks - Sommer SPK240 - self-made
The player doesn't natively play DSD or DoP FLAC, despite the DACs
ability to do so. The version of jRiver converts DSD to PCM FLAC, which
seems like a complete oversight.
Two track 1's and no track 2 after a scan for new and changed? Please
vote for serious scanning bug '17782'
Mnyb wrote:
I really loved the underestimated feature of discrete 6ch uncompressed
music . That was the real deal with SACD or DVDA 2ch of the same master
would sound exactly the same as 16/44.1 or 24/192 but the multichannel
was something else .
Totally agree. It's the only feature I
I've said my peace. No more Pono talk for me :-).
'http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/01/last-words-on-pono-mastering-analysis.html'
(http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2015/01/last-words-on-pono-mastering-analysis.html)
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A while back:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?101133-Pono-Playerp=774927viewfull=1#post774927
Also i think it is almost a shame to misuse the idea behind
crowd-funding this way.
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Mr young cant work magic either ,apparently ?
The elephant in the room is that as a reseller you just dont have
creative control over what masters you get ! the record companys sends
what they see fit .
Mr Young has control over his own stuff and also apparently used the
best ones he had ,even
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