Pearl Jam limited edition chrome Pono Player

tempo_n_groove

MedozK said:

tempo_n_groove said:

What's a pono?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RD5atPYaxX0lM&v=5atPYaxX0lM

What's a wha wha?

EdsonNascimento

Interesting read. Has this been posted here before? If so, sorry for doubling up. Thoughts? Seems logical and rational to me.

http://www.dansdata.com/gz143.htm

2-feign-reluctance

:-B

RD101189

demetrios said:

Project Update #27: Important Amazon Payments Update
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Dear PonoMusic Kickstarter supporters, here are a few important notes about the payment of your pledges:

1. If you received an email notification from Amazon Payments that you were charged by Ivanhoe, this notification is CORRECT and refers to your pledge to PonoMusic, which is an Invahoe (DE) Inc. dba.

2. If you received an error message from Amazon Payments, please address this IMMEDIATELY. If you log in to your Kickstarter account you can follow the Fix Payment button at the top of your screen, which will lead you to update your payment info. If any of you are having difficulty, please look through the Kickstarter FAQ and contact Kickstarter directly for assistance.

After seven days, all backers that have not resolved their payment issue will be dropped and NO LONGER longer be able to support PonoMusic Kickstarter, which means you will NOT receive your reward.

3. As Kickstarter is a donation-based crowdfunding platform, your donation is collected now to help us jumpstart PonoMusic. Our promise to you is to deliver your reward by the delivery estimate date of your reward.

4. We will be reaching out in the next week or so with surveys to get mailing addresses, shirt sizes, shipping addresses, ... for those that pledged their respective rewards. Please make sure you fill them out promptly.

Thank you again for your support.

I wonder how much money came off the table with payments not coming through. They're acting like it's a more than they bargained for after counting their $6M in unhatched chickens.

2-feign-reluctance

They need to rename it LOCO. Cos' that's what this thread is doing to me slowly.

oysterjar

EdsonNascimento said:

Interesting read. Has this been posted here before? If so, sorry for doubling up. Thoughts? Seems logical and rational to me.

http://www.dansdata.com/gz143.htm

Without listening to a pono I would logically have to agree the author.

on2legs

EdsonNascimento said:

Interesting read. Has this been posted here before? If so, sorry for doubling up. Thoughts? Seems logical and rational to me.

http://www.dansdata.com/gz143.htm

I never knew soap made you taller.

october22

on2legs said:

EdsonNascimento said:

Interesting read. Has this been posted here before? If so, sorry for doubling up. Thoughts? Seems logical and rational to me.

http://www.dansdata.com/gz143.htm

I never knew soap made you taller.

I've always loved that lyric. That was an excellent article. His response article to critical comments was even better. Check that out if you haven't already.

on2legs

october22 said:

on2legs said:

EdsonNascimento said:

Interesting read. Has this been posted here before? If so, sorry for doubling up. Thoughts? Seems logical and rational to me.

http://www.dansdata.com/gz143.htm

I never knew soap made you taller.

I've always loved that lyric. That was an excellent article. His response article to critical comments was even better. Check that out if you haven't already.

I think that lyric is very simple yet brilliant. And it seems appropriate here because it seems like NY is hyping Pono beyond what it's really capable of delivering. I think people will be impressed with the quality over mp3's but might be let down that it's not the revolution they're being promised.

Maybe I should have changed it slightly...

I never knew Pono made you taller.

Thirty Bills Unpaid

on2legs said:

october22 said:

on2legs said:

EdsonNascimento said:

Interesting read. Has this been posted here before? If so, sorry for doubling up. Thoughts? Seems logical and rational to me.

http://www.dansdata.com/gz143.htm

I never knew soap made you taller.

I've always loved that lyric. That was an excellent article. His response article to critical comments was even better. Check that out if you haven't already.

I think that lyric is very simple yet brilliant. And it seems appropriate here because it seems like NY is hyping Pono beyond what it's really capable of delivering. I think people will be impressed with the quality over mp3's but might be let down that it's not the revolution they're being promised.

Maybe I should have changed it slightly...

I never knew Pono made you taller.

I'm managing my expectations.

At a very minimum, the pono player will be an alternative to the iPod at a relatively comparative cost. My iPod sucks shit and I hate managing my music through iTunes for reasons I don't even wish to get into. If the product delivers a crisper sound in the slightest... then awesome!

This device was introduced at a good time for me.

on2legs

Thirty Bills Unpaid said:

on2legs said:

october22 said:

on2legs said:

EdsonNascimento said:

Interesting read. Has this been posted here before? If so, sorry for doubling up. Thoughts? Seems logical and rational to me.

http://www.dansdata.com/gz143.htm

I never knew soap made you taller.

I've always loved that lyric. That was an excellent article. His response article to critical comments was even better. Check that out if you haven't already.

I think that lyric is very simple yet brilliant. And it seems appropriate here because it seems like NY is hyping Pono beyond what it's really capable of delivering. I think people will be impressed with the quality over mp3's but might be let down that it's not the revolution they're being promised.

Maybe I should have changed it slightly...

I never knew Pono made you taller.

I'm managing my expectations.

At a very minimum, the pono player will be an alternative to the iPod at a relatively comparative cost. My iPod sucks shit and I hate managing my music through iTunes for reasons I don't even wish to get into. If the product delivers a crisper sound in the slightest... then awesome!

This device was introduced at a good time for me.

Agreed

given2fly23

This whole discussion has actually gotten me back to listening to my CDs. I mostly listen to audience-recorded live shows of many bands and iTunes while I work, but I've rediscovered my CD album collection.

2-feign-reluctance

given2fly23 said:

This whole discussion has actually gotten me back to listening to my CDs. I mostly listen to audience-recorded live shows of many bands and iTunes while I work, but I've rediscovered my CD album collection.

I never left em' but this whole discussion, including my own thoughts, have given me major pause. What I've got sounds pretty fucking amazing to my ears. PONO is probably gonna be a NOGO for me.

given2fly23

2-feign-reluctance said:

I never left em' but this whole discussion, including my own thoughts, have given me major pause. What I've got sounds pretty fucking amazing to my ears. PONO is probably gonna be a NOGO for me.

I still think it serves a purpose (playlists and collections in lossless and hi-fi quality), but the design doesnt make it a portable player. They might as well have made it even bigger, maybe like a tablet. I'll still need my iPod for working out/traveling, so this doesnt really replace that. I think the artist LEs are a cool idea though.

(sorry if these things have already been mentioned. I didnt follow all 30 pages)

manitouman

If you dropped some cash into this project you could consider yourself a stakeholder in the project. I can certainly understand the feeling that these artists have enough money to fund the project themselves but this makes it even more special. They are asking you to be a part of something which may or may not work. Either way those invested in this are a part of it and I think that may be some of the thinking behind offering to fund this through the consumers who are interested in it.

I used to tape shows in high resolution 24/192 and then switched to 24/96. These files would take up a DVD size disc in order to fit an entire show on. The problem with this high of a resolution is that your normal players don't recognize the higher resolution audio for playback. This Pono may solve that issue. At least for me and all those who download live recordings now may have the option of being able to listed to these shows as they were intended when originally recorded. That would be great!!!

demetrios

Check your emails for your reward survey.

shecky

demetrios said:

Check your emails for your reward survey.

Alright!
I ordered one black PONO t-shirt and one yellow one.
I may eventually frame the yellow t-shirt with one of the signed Neil posters and wear the black one.
There ended up being only 1,010 signed posters ordered so maybe Neil is done signing them by now.
Sure hope he can still play guitar after all that!

demetrios

https://www.facebook.com/NeilYoungPono?fref=nf

"Our team in action designing the #PonoPlayer"

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=765371890163180&set=vb.471854269514945&type=2&theater

demetrios

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1003614822/ponomusic-where-your-soul-rediscovers-music/posts/858017?at=BAh7CDoMcG9zdF9pZGkDoRcNSSIIdWlkBjoGRVRpAxf4KkkiC2V4cGlyeQY7BlRJIhgyMDE0LTA2LTI4IDE3OjQ2OjM5BjsGVA==--5d8080d0e0fe696c101e0248dba940937713590e&ref=backer_project_update

Project Update #30: Pono Team's Progress - June 2014
Backer white For backers only Posted by the PonoMusic Team Black heart (cards) Like

First we want to thank all of you, again, for your tremendous support in our hugely successful Kickstarter campaign. We’ve been overwhelmed by your enthusiasm and reception of Pono. We know many of you have been spreading the word about Pono and we truly appreciate it. In fact, there have been hundreds of requests from those that missed the Kickstarter deadline. For those of you with any payment problems or special requests, contact us at support@ponomusic.com. Please give us a few days to get back to you due to the large volume of emails. We’re working diligently to reduce the backlog.

We are making great progress on the development of the new and improved PonoPlayer (the one you pledged for), as well as the on-line store, the content delivery system, and the desktop media center application. We have established a number of key partnerships to help us expedite our development process.


We are proud to announce that we have reached a strategic partnership with JRiver (www.jriver.com), who will be providing us with a Pono-branded version of their world-class desktop media center software. This software will be similar to the iTunes® desktop app in that it will allow you to manage your music, create playlists, sync your music to your PonoPlayer, access the PonoMusic store, purchase & download music to your desktop, do player firmware updates, etc.

We are also thrilled to announce our partnership with CloudCraze (www.cloudcraze.com), an eCommerce platform that runs natively on the salesforce1® platform; as well as our partnership with SalesForce.com where the PonoMusic store will be hosted. We are using the CloudCraze/salesforce1® platform to develop a world-class social music store. We expect to have our PonoPlayer pre-order store (for post-Kickstarter pre-orders of PonoPlayers and some accessories) up and running in mid-to-late June. We will be automatically creating user accounts on our store for each of our Kickstarter supporters. Look for an email notification in June once your account is set up. You will need to login and ensure that we have your correct contact information and billing address.

Lastly, we are days away from finalizing a partnership with a world-class content delivery partner who has great expertise in the content management and quality management issues near and dear to us at PonoMusic. We will notify you once our partnership is finalized and let you know why we are so excited about this partnership. We have also begun the work with the major music labels in order to have the PonoMusic store on line with a very large, relevant and interesting content catalog by October. Stay tuned for more news on this front. This work will be on-going at Pono as we will continue to add content to the PonoMusic.com store every day after the launch.

Last but not least, we are excited to announce that Bruce Botnick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Botnick) has joined the PonoMusic leadership team. He is a legendary audio engineer and record producer known for his work with the Doors, Love, Buffalo Springfield, the Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, and many other artists. Also, on Bruce's list of credits are numerous motion pictures including the Star Trek movies (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098567/). Bruce is responsible for establishing our content strategy and ensuring that we provide you the highest quality version of each recording sold in our music store. Bruce recently shared with the team the following graphic, which captures the state of modern recording today and depicts his motivation for joining Pono to help us save music from the lossy formats such as MP3.



State of Modern Music RecordingState of Modern Music Recording

As for the PonoPlayers, we’ve built our first batch of new circuit boards incorporating the Ayre audio electronics and are beginning to build dozens of PonoPlayers in both California and in Shenzhen. These units will be used for testing everything from audio performance to the durability of the player. We will be exercising every function of the player thousands of times and are building testers to do some of this automatically.

Our very first board went to Charlie Hansen, founder of Ayre Acoustics, and he was ecstatic with the results of his design. Ayre has designed our audio system electronics in the PonoPlayer using the same principles used on his company’s amplifiers, DACs, and preamplifiers that are revered in the challenging world of audiophile standards. These products are famous for the use of discreet components (rather than off the shelf ICs), fully-balanced circuitry and a zero feedback design. The PonoPlayer project is the first time in history that technology of this caliber has been designed and built into a portable device. And from our listening experience, the results are spectacular and well worth the effort. We are grateful to Charlie and his team. This is all part of the Pono commitment to bring you an unmatched audio experience in a hand-held device.

Several of us recently returned from Shenzhen, China, where our terrific team at PCH is hard at work in preparing for several successive product builds, as well as testing and manufacturing process improvements. We visited several of the factories that will supply parts for the player and the factory that will be doing the final assembly and testing. We also visited the labs where we are still working to perfect the finishing and laser etching on the Limited Edition players.


Many of you have inquired about the types of PonoPlayers that will be available once we fulfill our Kickstarter commitments. We are currently planning to offer four models: yellow and black with a soft touch finish, each retailing for $399, a version finished in brushed chrome at $499, and a clear model at $499. The latter two models will likely include some special packaging and accessories.

To those of you that have asked about headphones, we are working on several offerings that we are very excited about. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to experience the flawless sound from Pono soundtracks, and do so at an affordable price. We also will be testing headphones from many of the major manufacturers and posting our recommendations on our site in a few months.

We will soon be moving into our offices located in the Potrero Hill area of San Francisco (see pics below). Finally, the team will all be located together. For those of you that pledged for t-shirts and posters, they will go out in June as promised. Lastly, we are on schedule to meet our Kickstarter commitments to deliver players beginning in October. We will continue to provide updates as we move closer.

We thank you for your support and patience as we work on bringing you the best Hi-Res music experience by October.

on2legs

I really wish Neil Young would have appeared on Shark Tank with this Pono thing just so Mr. Wonderful could tell him "you're dead to me."