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Neil Young’s Pono Music Player Has Arrived

January 7th, 2015 Dana Reandelar

After raising over $6 million dollars last year, a sum almost eight times more than its initial Kickstarter goal of $800,000, Neil Young‘s Pono player is finally ready for the public. The compact music player that promises users a noticeably more enriched musical experience is going for £260/$399 a piece, and is set to hit about 80 retail stores on Monday in the United States. It will be available in February in the UK/EU.

The music player, whose primary purpose is to store lossless codecs (FLAC, ALAC), is reportedly capable of holding up to about 800, 192 kHz/24 bit tracks. Simply put, it can hold a bunch of super high-res audio files for the audiophiles.

If that’s something you’re interested in, head on over to Young’s online store or go pick one up on Monday.

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One Response to “Neil Young’s Pono Music Player Has Arrived”

  1. FF_Bookman says:
    January 13, 2015 at 10:59 AM

    do you like good food? of course you do. shall i refer to you from now on as a “food-o-phile”? that sounds like pedophile and makes you seem like an idiot.

    so stop calling people that love music and want to sound the way it should “audiophiles”. it’s used as a degrading term and all you are admitting is that you don’t care whatsover how your music sounds. it must not be very good if you don’t care to make it sound any better, or you have an “audiophile” system to make it sound correct.

    food is nourishment and people can and do prefer better than fast food. music is emotional nourishment and most enjoy better than fast food, when given a choice. here’s a real review of the ponoplayer, plugged into mainstream, cheap gear:
    http://wp.me/P2MP5A-10Z

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