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In Reply to: RE: Duped? Free? posted by audioengr on January 26, 2015 at 21:19:20
"Duped into thinking that 24/192 sample rate was somehow new.."
Where did they ever say that??
"Duped into thinking that there are no other portable or other players for that matter that play 24/192."
Where the heck did you get that? The A&K player was on the cover of Stereophile a year ago. There are at least 25 + portable players that do 192 and even DSD.
"The public still does not learn that this advancement in the state of the art has been going on for a long time and it is not a Pono invention."
Nobody ever said it was.
"They still don't know about all of the other companies creating great hardware and software to do hi-res."
Whose problem is that, Pono's? The public also does not know we could have all been driving electric cars and be done with fossil fuels.
"I'm not convinced that it was necessary to do a hardware component to Pono."
I agree with this.
Follow Ups:
"Duped into thinking that 24/192 sample rate was somehow new.."
When Pono started to generated publicity somewhere in 2012 there was indeed a talk about an exciting new music format. There was also a talk about a streaming service of course in the same quality “as the musician hears it”. (Don’t think they had stage monitors in mind when they claimed this).
Now PCM is not really new (Alec Reeves, 1937).
However, at that time Pono was collaborating with Meridian.
My guesswork is that the initial plans might have been to use Meridian’s MQA, hence the “exiting new format”.
The Well Tempered Computer
Yes, that is true, and NY and Pono smartly walked away from Meridian because we need a new "format" like a bullet in the head...So I see that as a smart move.
When Meridian fully explains and rolls out MQS, or is it MQC format I will certainly be open minded and curious...
EDIT: I see it is MQA..for Master Quality Audio?
Edits: 01/27/15
Master Quality Authenticated
Meridian is not very clear where this is about but of course you hear exactly what the musicians are hearing (stage monitors?) and it is smaller than a high res PCM and is lossless at 16/44 so probably something Redbook with something compressed for the remainder?????
The Well Tempered Computer
Interesting. Thank you for the follow up. Keeping an open mind. I am ALL for authenticated quality.
That jogged my memory that there *was* a question of what format Pono would use.
But I have to shake my head at Steve Nugent who, for some reason (conflating the unknown Meridian format for "duping" kickstarters?), felt compelled to publicly pee on Pono. Pono is not beyond criticism but computer audiophiles, I think, would be smart to support it, not knee-cap it!
"The public also does not know we could have all been driving electric cars and be done with fossil fuels."
Really? How? Do you know of some battery technology that I am unaware of?
I have looked into battery technology several times, and the only company that claimed to have suitable performing batteries (actually ultra-capacitors) never delivered a product. My recommendation at the time to a friend was not to invest in the company as it was likely to be a scam.
If you know of interesting battery suppliers or technologies, I would definitely be interested in hearing about them and would even consider investing in them if they were to pass due diligence.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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