sergeantk Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 I've had my iPod Nano for like 7 years now, and it still works perfectly, despite so much abuse over the years, up to and including extreme temperatures (-20 F to 95 F) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebraska Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Neil Young branded Ponomusic hi definition audio players. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/neil-young-announces-launch-ponomusic-19703/ "to hear music the way its creators intended, with the emotion, detail, and power intact." ponomusic "beats would allow people to "hear what the artists hear, and listen to the music the way they should: the way I do." beats headphones what's next? they'll begin selling us producer ears that we can graft ontop of our own ears so we can have "an ear like your favorite producer. hear exactly what they hear" btw: ponomusic sounds too much like pornomusic. personally, i like the sound of mp3 more so pono loses just on cool sounding basis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLA FUR BIS FLE Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Yup sansa clip+. A bit buggy, but it was cheap. Put rockbox firmware on it and you can play a ton of games on it too including: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVV_0xKmhw lol yes. i have one of these and love it. i have not used rockbox yet, but i did install HL1 on my ipod Nano a while back. Very strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Neil Young branded Ponomusic hi definition audio players. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/neil-young-announces-launch-ponomusic-19703/ Oooh boy - I'm sure that toblerone shaped design would feel an absolute joy in your pocket. And $400 ?! Just grab a 128gb microSD and a cheap phone and you'd probably get it for about half that with probably an identical D/A converter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 (edited) Neil Young branded Ponomusic hi definition audio players. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/neil-young-announces-launch-ponomusic-19703/ Oooh boy - I'm sure that toblerone shaped design would feel an absolute joy in your pocket. And $400 ?! Just grab a 128gb microSD and a cheap phone and you'd probably get it for about half that with probably an identical D/A converter... exactly... i can't believe the shitty "design" of this thing but i'd love to hear it. big music stars love it, check the video on pitchfoork... http://pitchfork.com/news/54316-neil-young-launches-digital-music-serviceplayer-pono-with-help-from-arcade-fire-beck-jack-white-bruce-springsteen-patti-smith-more/ beck, neil young, etc on the bus made me lol like is this a spinal tap piss take? i had to check it wasn't april fool's. also why does neil young need a kickstarter for this? huge loaded mega stars are scrounging free money to fund their projects? wtf? Edited March 12, 2014 by keltoi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmanyo Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 (edited) FLAC will fill up 128GB pretty damn fast, also. This is one of the dumbest things I've heard of in awhile. Edited March 12, 2014 by gmanyo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmanyo Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 HA look at this fucking bullshit http://www.factmag.com/2014/03/12/whats-your-cut-audience-question-derails-neil-youngs-pono-introduction-at-sxsw/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhylumZunami Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 i used to have this "Creative" Zen mp3 player back in 05 or so that could hold up to 10,000 songs. ended up failing and i bought one of those chubby iPod nano's. Still works TO THIS DAY. Take that apple haterzzz. Also, my current iPhone is used more as an mp3 player than a cellular device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 HA look at this fucking bullshit http://www.factmag.com/2014/03/12/whats-your-cut-audience-question-derails-neil-youngs-pono-introduction-at-sxsw/ flol. i'm looking forward to watching this unravel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huzur Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I still carry around a 512 mb ipod shuffle since 8 years ago. I only have around 20 tracks on it at any given time, as a tribute to the old days of cd players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Here's the kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music I am all for higher quality downloads and have spent a lot of time and money to make sure my entire collection is lossless. That being said I will readily admit that the psychoacoustic gains are limited and that quality mastering is a more important consideration than high resolution files. I wasn't surprised to see that only musicians as opposed to mastering engineers were interviewed for that 'reactions' vid: instead of audio science we are fed adjectives like 'warm', 'round' and 'alive': notions that are entirely subjective and unquantifiable. Also, they weren't even talking about the hi-fi in that car which is the really crucial component for the experience that the celebrity listeners were having, as opposed to the file resolution. I smell audiophile bullshit, and this is coming from an audiophile :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubin Farr Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 I read today "The Boss" is involved as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest murphythecat8 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) look at sanza, vuze + ect. best bang for the buck I use a sansa clip + with 8gb micro sdcard added Edited March 18, 2014 by murphythecat8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blir Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Also a Sansa Clip user. Great sound on it, perfect if you're a cyclist. Only downside is battery life but if you set the brightness settings much lower and make a couple of other tweaks you can increase that by a couple hours. You're never too far from a micro USB cable these days so just keep it topped up. I've got two of them even. 32GB micro SD card gives me a decent sized library. With the 128GB micro SDs arriving soon I can't see me ever converting away from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jasondonervan Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I'm with Goiter. This PornoMusic thing seems woolly as you like, trading on 'feels' rather than facts. I paid £250 for my walkman, and it plays back lossless audio beautifully to my ears, even with just the stock earphones (which I do plan to upgrade eventually). Oh, right - it isn't signed by Neil Young... *drop-kicks walkman into a quarry* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foresense Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Yup sansa clip+. A bit buggy, but it was cheap. Put rockbox firmware on it and you can play a ton of games on it too including: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVV_0xKmhw lol yes. i have one of these and love it. i have not used rockbox yet, but i did install HL1 on my ipod Nano a while back. Very strange. Rockbox is great! Doom was what made me check it out, but now I can now record in lossless format, and the recordings are not bad at all. Just checked a bunch, no interference like with most phones, clean sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Dylan Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Don Draper is the CEO of Ponomusic. It's also not a "portable" player, it is not made for portability actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root5 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Neil Young is now reduced to a snake-oil salesman in my eyes. I'm a fan of flac, and everything. But the emphasis on 192kHz/24 bit audio is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Yup sansa clip+. A bit buggy, but it was cheap. Put rockbox firmware on it and you can play a ton of games on it too including: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVV_0xKmhw I have a Sansa Clip+. I love it. But I've been hesitant on putting Rockbox to it. Why should I do it? I know I can play games and shit. But would you recommend it? Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goiter Sanchez Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Neil Young is now reduced to a snake-oil salesman in my eyes. I'm a fan of flac, and everything. But the emphasis on 192kHz/24 bit audio is ridiculous. Yeah, can't believe he can speak with such conviction about this; ultrasonic frequencies can create bands of distortion in the audible range on some systems and in ABX double-blind tests no one can reliably tell the difference between 24/192 and 16/44.1. For further reading: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friendly Foil Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Don't most people use MP3 players when they're on the move and stuff with lots of noise around them? Because then I'm not sure how lossless music would be worth all the trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foresense Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Yup sansa clip+. A bit buggy, but it was cheap. Put rockbox firmware on it and you can play a ton of games on it too including: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rVV_0xKmhw I have a Sansa Clip+. I love it. But I've been hesitant on putting Rockbox to it. Why should I do it? I know I can play games and shit. But would you recommend it? Why? I almost bricked mine on the first day I got it, due to some strange disk corruption. It would take minutes to start up and wouldn't respond. So I came across rockbox, and basically just installed it when it finally decided to boot correct. You lose DRM playback, and I wouldn't recommend it for games really, playing doom feels like ur handicapped. But just look through the features yourself and decide... For me recordings seem cleaner, no interference anymore, and I can record in WavPack format, which is nice. Bookmarks are nice. Autoresume. Theres some nice stuff there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foresense Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Still buggy as hell with when I try to plug it in my USB port though, sometimes it crashes, sometimes it doesn't show up at all. But at least it powers through this stuff without bricking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
logakght Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Yup sansa clip+. A bit buggy, but it was cheap. Put rockbox firmware on it and you can play a ton of games on it too including: I have a Sansa Clip+. I love it. But I've been hesitant on putting Rockbox to it. Why should I do it? I know I can play games and shit. But would you recommend it? Why? I almost bricked mine on the first day I got it, due to some strange disk corruption. It would take minutes to start up and wouldn't respond. So I came across rockbox, and basically just installed it when it finally decided to boot correct. You lose DRM playback, and I wouldn't recommend it for games really, playing doom feels like ur handicapped. But just look through the features yourself and decide... For me recordings seem cleaner, no interference anymore, and I can record in WavPack format, which is nice. Bookmarks are nice. Autoresume. Theres some nice stuff there. oh yeah I wish the recording was smoother (it sounds like a click at least in mine)... thanks for the reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmanyo Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 porno music is at almost 5 million dollars right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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