Pearl Jam limited edition chrome Pono Player

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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,665
    edited February 2015
    Schabs78 said:

    I'm faced with a major dilemma. A guy offered me $800 for my PJ Pono loaded with my 60 bootlegs. I have a Foo's Pono also but he wants the PJ. Part of me doesn't want to let it go but the money would help.

    Did you decide??
    You can just copy the boots onto the Foos Pono, no? If so, you're getting $800 for a Pono. Seems like a good deal for you!
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,281
    Not a fan of the Pono Store. https://ponomusic.force.com/

    The search engine needs a lot of work. If you're a fan of Neil Young, only 6 releases are available https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=search&searchText=neil young . And they are all 16bit 44kHz quality.

    Their Pearl Jam page still hasn't updated. Only Lightning Bolt is available in the Canada store, while the USA store has much much more.

    ..

    Music companies will never understand. This is why a lot of fan's turn to torrents. You don't make the product available for purchase to fan's outside the USA? A "digital download" product? So the fan's outside the USA turn to downloading the albums for free via torrent. It's the companies fault. While the artist take a hit. Great job! :/
  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,667
    demetrios said:

    Not a fan of the Pono Store. https://ponomusic.force.com/

    The search engine needs a lot of work. If you're a fan of Neil Young, only 6 releases are available https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=search&searchText=neil young . And they are all 16bit 44kHz quality.

    Their Pearl Jam page still hasn't updated. Only Lightning Bolt is available in the Canada store, while the USA store has much much more.

    ..

    Music companies will never understand. This is why a lot of fan's turn to torrents. You don't make the product available for purchase to fan's outside the USA? A "digital download" product? So the fan's outside the USA turn to downloading the albums for free via torrent. It's the companies fault. While the artist take a hit. Great job! :/

    The prices for some of the CD-quality albums are ridiculous, too.
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    edited February 2015
    I don't understand paying for digital files of music, to each his own... I have recently switched to all vinyl if I purchase music, and most of the new albums come with a mp3 code or a cd so you get the best of both worlds... if you take care of your records you can physically own them forever...
    Post edited by my2hands on
  • BHealy
    BHealy Flagstaff, Arizona Posts: 466
    my2hands said:

    I don't understand paying for digital files of music, to each his own... I have recently switched to all vinyl if I purchase music, and most of the new albums come with a mp3 code or a cd so you get the best of both worlds... if you take care of your records you can physically own them forever...

    Just curious, have you noticed some of the newer vinyls don't sound as good as the old ones? I got a bunch of old classics on vinyl for Christmas, and they sound amazing (some Neil Young, Zeppelin, Who), but I've bought a few more recent releases that just sound okay. Maybe its just a fluke.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,281
    darthvedder said:

    demetrios said:

    Not a fan of the Pono Store. https://ponomusic.force.com/

    The search engine needs a lot of work. If you're a fan of Neil Young, only 6 releases are available https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=search&searchText=neil young . And they are all 16bit 44kHz quality.

    Their Pearl Jam page still hasn't updated. Only Lightning Bolt is available in the Canada store, while the USA store has much much more.

    ..

    Music companies will never understand. This is why a lot of fan's turn to torrents. You don't make the product available for purchase to fan's outside the USA? A "digital download" product? So the fan's outside the USA turn to downloading the albums for free via torrent. It's the companies fault. While the artist take a hit. Great job! :/

    The prices for some of the CD-quality albums are ridiculous, too.
    I have no idea why Neil would open the business and sell regular CD 16Bit 44kHz quality rips on the site. He should of focused exclusively on 24Bit audio. Like HDtracks.com, they don't sell 16Bit audio. It's all 24Bit. 44kHz & higher. To put all those CD rips up there & charge that price is a little crazy. It turns away customers. Yeah I get down the road when the album does get released on 24Bit your 16Bit purchase get's upgrade at no charge, but what if there is no upgrade to 24Bit, like EVER? You're stuck with the CD 16bit Flac. They should get rid of all that at their store.
    my2hands said:

    I don't understand paying for digital files of music, to each his own... I have switched to all vinyl if I purchase music, and most of the new albums come with a mp3 code or a cd so you get the best of both worlds... if you take care of your records you can physically own them forever...

    Still not sure why uncle neil went in this direction

    If the highest quality live Pearl Jam show is only available on digital format and not physically, I would buy it. Well, I will buy all digital HD Pearl Jam if it's available to me in the highest quality available. But if the digital product is not available for me to purchase cause I live in Canada and it's exclusive to the USA as what Pono is doing at the moment, then I will download it freely from friends or through torrents.

    Like today's video game business, it blows my mine how a digital product is more expensive then owning the physical product. It doesn't make sense.
  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    demetrios said:

    darthvedder said:

    demetrios said:

    Not a fan of the Pono Store. https://ponomusic.force.com/

    The search engine needs a lot of work. If you're a fan of Neil Young, only 6 releases are available https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=search&searchText=neil young . And they are all 16bit 44kHz quality.

    Their Pearl Jam page still hasn't updated. Only Lightning Bolt is available in the Canada store, while the USA store has much much more.

    ..

    Music companies will never understand. This is why a lot of fan's turn to torrents. You don't make the product available for purchase to fan's outside the USA? A "digital download" product? So the fan's outside the USA turn to downloading the albums for free via torrent. It's the companies fault. While the artist take a hit. Great job! :/

    The prices for some of the CD-quality albums are ridiculous, too.
    I have no idea why Neil would open the business and sell regular CD 16Bit 44kHz quality rips on the site. He should of focused exclusively on 24Bit audio. Like HDtracks.com, they don't sell 16Bit audio. It's all 24Bit. 44kHz & higher. To put all those CD rips up there & charge that price is a little crazy. It turns away customers. Yeah I get down the road when the album does get released on 24Bit your 16Bit purchase get's upgrade at no charge, but what if there is no upgrade to 24Bit, like EVER? You're stuck with the CD 16bit Flac. They should get rid of all that at their store.
    my2hands said:

    I don't understand paying for digital files of music, to each his own... I have switched to all vinyl if I purchase music, and most of the new albums come with a mp3 code or a cd so you get the best of both worlds... if you take care of your records you can physically own them forever...

    Still not sure why uncle neil went in this direction

    If the highest quality live Pearl Jam show is only available on digital format and not physically, I would buy it. Well, I will buy all digital HD Pearl Jam if it's available to me in the highest quality available. But if the digital product is not available for me to purchase cause I live in Canada and it's exclusive to the USA as what Pono is doing at the moment, then I will download it freely from friends or through torrents.

    Like today's video game business, it blows my mine how a digital product is more expensive then owning the physical product. It doesn't make sense.
    Totally agree, not sure why neil even went down this road, but they should stick strictly to 24, otherwise what is the point? And with Neil being a canadian, not sure why he is fucking with you guys like that lol

  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,667
    edited February 2015
    It doesn't bother me that CD-quality music is in the Pono store, if that's the highest possible resolution. No other store sells it that way, at least none that I am aware of. Amazon is mp3. iTunes is aac. What bothers me is that the prices need to be more competitive in order to compete with Amazon and iTunes.

    For example, in the Pono store, they have My Morning Jacket's Circuital in CD-quality, 16-bit, 44kHz. (Why they don't have the 24-bit version that came with the LE MMJ player is another question entirely). The price in the Pono store is $15.29 for a 10 track download with no liner notes. The CD price on Amazon is $10.00. Even when you factor shipping in, it'll come out less than the Pono store.

    Hmm, after writing that out and thinking about it, maybe you guys are right and they shouldn't even bother with CD-quality downloads as long as the CD is still readily available. Doesn't seem worth it at all unless they can get a hold of out-of-print CDs.
    Post edited by darthvedder on
  • Fastrichie
    Fastrichie Sandy Hook, CT Posts: 921
    sorry if this has been mentioned, but there are PJ ponos for sale on the pono website.
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  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    Fastrichie said:

    sorry if this has been mentioned, but there are PJ ponos for sale on the pono website.

    Yea, saw that $499.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,281
    MedozK said:

    Fastrichie said:

    sorry if this has been mentioned, but there are PJ ponos for sale on the pono website.

    Yea, saw that $499.
    Yep. With 2 in stock.

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    Many other signature series Pono Players for sale too.
  • rafie
    rafie Posts: 2,160
    While updating my playlist I accidentally erased the pre-loaded songs from the pono player (the neil young song and the 2 pj albums). Anyone know how to restore them?
    Still can't believe I met Mike Mccready at the Guggenheim and got a pic with him!!!!!

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  • RD101189
    RD101189 Posts: 454
    And the Pono team swore up and down the signature editions would not be available after the campaign ended....
    demetrios said:

    MedozK said:

    Fastrichie said:

    sorry if this has been mentioned, but there are PJ ponos for sale on the pono website.

    Yea, saw that $499.
    Yep. With 2 in stock.

    image

    Many other signature series Pono Players for sale too.
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  • AndySlash
    AndySlash Posts: 3,287
    these have to be orders that weren't paid for or unshipped for some reason. if these were manufactured but not able to be shipped, then they should definitely try and sell them. if they ever offer NEW versions of these, then yeah, that would kind of be upsetting.
  • rafie
    rafie Posts: 2,160
    So I am uploading music to the additional memory card and the transfer rate is extremely slow. I am getting 0.1 MB as opposed to 3MB when transferring music to the internal memory drive. Any one else have this problem? What can I do to speed things along?
    Still can't believe I met Mike Mccready at the Guggenheim and got a pic with him!!!!!

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    2012: 26-27/6/12 - Amsterdam ~~ 29/6/12 - Werchter ~~ 4-5/7/12 - Berlin
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  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,667
    rafie said:

    So I am uploading music to the additional memory card and the transfer rate is extremely slow. I am getting 0.1 MB as opposed to 3MB when transferring music to the internal memory drive. Any one else have this problem? What can I do to speed things along?

    Does your computer have a card reader? I suppose you could plug the card into your computer instead of the Pono and see if that's faster.
  • rafie
    rafie Posts: 2,160
    darthvedder said:

    rafie said:

    So I am uploading music to the additional memory card and the transfer rate is extremely slow. I am getting 0.1 MB as opposed to 3MB when transferring music to the internal memory drive. Any one else have this problem? What can I do to speed things along?

    Does your computer have a card reader? I suppose you could plug the card into your computer instead of the Pono and see if that's faster.
    i ended up reinstalling the pono music world program. Seems to have done the trick.
    Still can't believe I met Mike Mccready at the Guggenheim and got a pic with him!!!!!

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    2012: 26-27/6/12 - Amsterdam ~~ 29/6/12 - Werchter ~~ 4-5/7/12 - Berlin
    2014: 25/6/14 - Vienna ~~ 26/6/14 - Berlin
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,281
    The HD audio revolution: how music streaming is going high-end, and why you’re going to love it

    http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2015/02/digital-audio-revolution.html

  • Bubba
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    Man I wish I checked this thread when they had those 2 available...ugh
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,281
    @pono

    Someone pointed out that @Pono looks a bit like a certain brand of chocolate. We promise ours goes down smoother...

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