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 quote:PonoMusic is a revolutionary movement conceived and founded by Neil Young. Our mission is to bring the highest-quality digital music to discerning, passionate consumers, who wish to experience music the way the artists intended, with the emotion, detail, and power intact. "It's about the music, real music. We want to move digital music into the 21st century and PonoMusic does that. We couldn't be more excited about bringing PonoMusic to the market," said Neil Young, founder and chairman of PonoMusic. Woah, 128GB. Look at the tags on the PonoPlayer's screen. 
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Bring digital music into the 21st century? I thought digital music was pretty much already a product of the 21st century.
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Mar 9, 2014 15:16
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Question: Can I play nonsexual songs on the pornomusic player?
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Mar 9, 2014 15:20
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Clever Spambot posted:Goon project or not, everything about that kickstarter makes me think its either a joke or a scam. I don't think I'll back it. dude is definitely not WAY more organized and put together
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Mar 9, 2014 15:22
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What I'm wondering is who in the year of our lord 2014 actually thinks there's still an untapped market for a dedicated digital music playing device when every single smartphone fills that function quite nicely. Also a quick Google search reveals that the announcement of this device has audiophiles really, really excited so I'm fully expecting the Pono to do nothing. Meatwave posted:Question: Can I play nonsexual songs on the pornomusic player? Yes but only songs from the soundtrack of the hit Miyazaki film Ponyo.
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Mar 9, 2014 15:26
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Shame the edges aren't a bit sharper, I would love to have a device stabbing me in a thigh as I listen to Nickelback.
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Mar 9, 2014 15:41
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"The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums." That'd have to be songs, not albums. And I'd love to know what their files do that FLACs don't.
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Mar 9, 2014 15:57
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Athletic Footjob posted:"The PonoPlayer has 128GB of memory and can store 1000 to 2000 high-resolution digital-music albums." They have a much richer sound that allows for a deeper and more nuanced soundscape.
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Mar 9, 2014 16:06
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FrozenVent posted:They have a much richer sound that allows for a deeper and more nuanced soundscape. Please elaborate. If the goal is to deliver master quality audio to the masses, you could do the same with flac and that wouldn't require the use of an expensive, proprietary, plastic toblerone.
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Mar 9, 2014 16:26
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Meatwave posted:Please elaborate. You need a better sarcasm detector.
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Mar 9, 2014 16:46
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Meatwave posted:Please elaborate. God do we have to explain everything? Okay, when audio is being unpacked from a digital format it has to be crunched. Flac only runs a double crunch which, while adequate, ruins the fidelity of the sound areas by solidifying the soundwave before it has time to properly compile. The Pono program, by comparison, runs a triple crunch pass which better equalizes the frequency and then a cleaner pass which sharpens the peaks, thus allowing for a much greater tone variance than traditional methods.
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dijon du jour posted:God do we have to explain everything? Hm... But does it make sound crisp and rich?
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Paladinus posted:Hm... But does it make sound crisp and rich? Yes, and golden-brown and with no free radicals.
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Mar 9, 2014 17:02
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quote:The PonoPlayer will be sold at PonoMusic.com for $399 MSRP and is available for pre-order at a discount on Kickstarter.com as of March 15th. May as well get a smartphone if you're going to blow that much money on an MP3 player. Dude in Pensacola has a successful Kickstarter for a "Hobogrill" made of recycled parts.  It's a tin can with a grill and a hinge. 
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Mar 9, 2014 17:05
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That logo really speaks to me. It's half soulless Silicon Valley and half poverty chic! Also who knew that even mentioning the term "flac" would summon a joyless defender of the audio compression faith to the thread?
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Paladinus posted:Hm... But does it make sound crisp and rich? Bro this sound is so rich Republicans want to give it a tax cut. It's so rich whenever French people listen to it they have an uncontrollable urge to behead something. I cannot speak for its crispiness.
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It's wearable!
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Prop Wash posted:Also who knew that even mentioning the term "flac" would summon a joyless defender of the audio compression faith to the thread? cthulhoo posted:You need a better sarcasm detector.
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the wildest rear end posted:Forward all questions to this dude Why did I come back to read this thread whyyyyy..  "I don't want to actually go in to the woods so here's a picture with me poorly copy pasted on to it."
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Evil Fluffy posted:Why did I come back to read this thread whyyyyy.. I dunno. I'd bet that guy probably really wants to be able to visit that location with the flood of money coming from his hobo grill.
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Waffleman_ posted:
You didn't even post the best picture. > Well yeah, but I'm going to get my money's worth, right?
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Mar 9, 2014 18:35
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DrManiac posted:You didn't even post the best picture.
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Mar 9, 2014 18:55
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Croccers posted:Why do all American malls/shopping centers look the same? How should they look different? You got to have the storefronts and the roofed over walking areas between them there's not much room to do anything unusual.
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I think it's pretty clear that the brony kickstarter is a parody. Just watch the video. My guess would be Sam Hyde / Million Dollar Extreme.
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semiavrage posted:I think it's pretty clear that the brony kickstarter is a parody. Just watch the video. My guess would be Sam Hyde / Million Dollar Extreme. Looks that way: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3615253 Which is a shame because it means there will be like no actually humorous payoff. The effort they put into just plain unfunny is astonishing.
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semiavrage posted:I think it's pretty clear that the brony kickstarter is a parody. Just watch the video. My guess would be Sam Hyde / Million Dollar Extreme. But what happens when they actually get the money? I hope they make a really cheesy game to annoy backers. Goodness, one dude even gave them 750 dollars. 
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Paladinus posted:But what happens when they actually get the money? I hope they make a really cheesy game to annoy backers. I hope they make the entire game legit, and then at the end it finds your porn folder/horrible brony fanfictions and posts all of it to facebook/twitter.
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tlarn posted:May as well get a smartphone if you're going to blow that much money on an MP3 player. Has no-one heard of the way more useful hexi stove? 
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Carecat posted:Has no-one heard of the way more useful hexi stove? That doesn't seem very hipster-friendly.
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Mar 10, 2014 02:25
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That solitary circle button reminds me of this Looks like some non-functional steampunk flashlight from Etsy.
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Hey, I had one of those back before they came in colours other than silver and black:  It was a good player, too and used a AAA battery so it lasted forever. Supported OGG Vorbis and FLAC, too.
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Mar 10, 2014 07:21
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It doesn't look like it would fit in my pocket very well. Or are they just really small?
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Mineaiki posted:It doesn't look like it would fit in my pocket very well. Or are they just really small? The stereo sockets should provide a useful reference. Not huge but bigger than what I would find convenient.
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Mineaiki posted:It doesn't look like it would fit in my pocket very well. Or are they just really small? The iRiver T60 I posted was about 6.5cm long, and maybe 2cm a side - it wasn't Apple slim but it was pretty small. The Pano looks maybe a little smaller?
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tlarn posted:May as well get a smartphone if you're going to blow that much money on an MP3 player. If these people actually gave a poo poo about the environment, this would be a kickstarter for 20$ and the result would be a PDF showing you the tools you need and supplies to convert a tin can into a grill. The environmental impact of shipping old rusted tin cans to a bunch of hipster assholes that are going to cook rust-flavoured chicken breasts on literal garbage is going to be about 30x greater than the impact of just pitching the cans in the dump.
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So is the Ponyo just targeting the same kind of dumb assholes who buy MONSTER CABLES?
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Mineaiki posted:It doesn't look like it would fit in my pocket very well. Or are they just really small? If you don't carry your MP3 player in a separate anti-static pouch outside your pants to isolate the electronics from your body's electro magnetic field, it's no wonder you can't appreciate the superior quality of the Pono.
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pathetic little tramp posted:If these people actually gave a poo poo about the environment, this would be a kickstarter for 20$ and the result would be a PDF showing you the tools you need and supplies to convert a tin can into a grill. The environmental impact of shipping old rusted tin cans to a bunch of hipster assholes that are going to cook rust-flavoured chicken breasts on literal garbage is going to be about 30x greater than the impact of just pitching the cans in the dump. It would make a nice instructable. You probably should'nt cook your stuff on aluminium anyway.
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