Is the Pono Player the future of mobile music, or is it a shameless attempt to prey upon consumers who are uninformed about audio technology?
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My iPod touch could play music with the screen off for probably about a day despite its crap battery life with the screen on, and it was way cheaper than that thing
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Porno player?
Linus makes great videos but he is wrong here stating that analog is not better than CD quality when it comes to dynamic range. Clearly a misconception that CDs are superior. They are not. Listening to a Vinyl or a reel tape player is nothing like a CD. I have experienced listening to true analog recordings only a few handful of times and no matter what I do to my home digital setup (which isn't cheap), I just cannot get the same sound.
It's not
The wooden box it comes in is a place to stash your drugs.
Well it's been 20 years since this was posted, I'm just gonna assume Snake Oil.
The only reason it’s this shape is because they used a cheap cylindrical battery and discrete transistors, the board itself is relatively flat.
I had completely forgotten how the old intro sounded what the hecc
kinf of ironic that Niel young babbles on about dynamic range and bit rate when his own music sounds like horse shit
If it's have full touch screen it'll ma great table multimedia player
"Snake oil indicator" lmao
No, this isn't the future of mobile music
My guess is no
Is this the future of music?
The future: What the hell is that?
Yes. I read pono. Nothing else.
Coming from 2021 and yeah it absolutely stuck around
I guess it wasn't the future?
It's been years since I even thought about Pono, so I guess that answers that.
it's been 6 years and there's no newest model, i guess it's a flop lmao
ive never seen linus this mad lol
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never saw this in 2021
Porno Player.
"Is this the future of mobile music?"
I have a message from the future: "no!"
Why do you call is Pâno, when it is spelled Pono?
Snake oil.
This showed up in my feed in 2021 and I can unequivically say, snake Oil
Let’s just say the first time I read the name I saw an “r” in it
Who get this in ther recommendation 7 years later 😛
This my friend, is the real reason why Neil Young wanted to leave Spotify.
coming from the future of Crypto and NFTs, i can say this sounds like a scam.
All the Hawaiians cringed when he butchered the word Pono 🙄
In 2015 ( when pono was released ) the best PMP was Sony's Walkman ZX2… But y'all were complaining about it because it cost 1200.00$ Not only that, the 400$ pono was capable of driving good headphones. Look at actual Audiophile reviews of the pono and you'll see that it did well in terms of sound. What really killed the pono was that the internet had a thing for labeling anything that was higher quality than an mp3 as 'Snake oil'. I mean anyone who could even hear the difference between an mp3, flac 16,24 and DSD was made fun of by the masses here on the internet.
Just out of curiosity, eBay has a single basic Pono player for $218.48 USD ($300 CAD from Prince Edward Island) and several Grateful Dead limited editions one for $600 and 2 for $800, and one Foo Fighters LE and one Metallica LE for $1700 USD each (but both are in Israel).
I have no idea who you are, but this is the best damn review I've seen … at least in a long time. Thanks for your sledge-hammer honesty.
8 years later and oh god this thing looks bad, even back in 2015 it was bad but nowadays everyone and their dog use AirPods or some forum of wireless.
Ah back when the videos weren’t crammed with LTT ads lol
hold on… bitrate does matter and it doesnt soubd worse wtf
8 years later, I think we can confidently say "no, it was not the future of mobile music"
I wish you would've just smashed it with a hammer and proceeded to disrespectfully spit on it, but I guess exposing Mr. Young will suffice.
No it's not.
2015 …. Wow