tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010292891685799733.post7396917957745895048..comments2024-02-06T14:48:33.376-08:00Comments on Music 3.0 Music Industry Blog: Neil Young’s Pono Finally Launches, But Will Anyone Care?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010292891685799733.post-86488127874783513802015-01-24T17:00:55.461-08:002015-01-24T17:00:55.461-08:00The key is to educate listeners regarding the qual...The key is to educate listeners regarding the quality difference of higher resolution, good D/A conversion, and better playback systems.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010292891685799733.post-15405474351256120012015-01-11T22:06:49.313-08:002015-01-11T22:06:49.313-08:00FWIW I have heard from some non-pro audio friends ...FWIW I have heard from some non-pro audio friends that they love PONO. They are long time music fans and appreciate the sound, seems that while young people are gravitating to vinyl the older people consider HiRes as good or even better<br /><br />I definitely see why it shouldn't work, but I think there is a market, probably not a fantastically large one, perhaps around the scale of vinyl??Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03392502154516917792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010292891685799733.post-68307820827981029772015-01-08T23:09:44.587-08:002015-01-08T23:09:44.587-08:00Quote: "Not only that, then you have to buy t...Quote: "Not only that, then you have to buy the music that you want to listen to from the Pono store and it’s not cheap (anywhere from $18 to $25 for an album and $1.99 a song)."<br /><br />This is false, you can play all sorts of files (flac, alac, mp3 etc) on the Pono Player and you dont have to download them from Pono. Anything you have laying aroung on your computer can be played on it. And it sounds darn good too. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com