Popular Post Ajax Posted September 16, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 16, 2019 Thanks Chris, I thought your review was well balanced and thoughtful , you give credit where credit's due, as well as highlighting Neil's lack of technical understanding of how digital audio actually works. I've been listening to Neil's music for many many years, since I was a young boy in the late 60's, and what consistently shines through is his desire for authenticity, to be real, and I disagree with earlier contributors that suggest he was in Pono only to make money. Neil is an artist, an idealist and above all a humanitarian. His very nature makes him exactly the wrong person to take the lead in such a demanding project. I think you hit the nail on the head when you cited problems started when John Hamm's influence was replaced by Bob Stuart's. The record companies' profits have been decimated, first by Napster, then by Apple and finally by the streaming companies and their desperation to wrestle back control is a large part of the reason why MQA has enjoyed it's (limited) success to date. I think the whole pono fiasco highlights Neil's imperfections (an idealist surrounding himself with mates and not professionals) as well as his attributes, trying in his own way to create a better music industry. His contribution to music cannot be underestimated and his efforts to provide consumers with better sounding music (I can't stomach the expression "hi-res", it's a nonsense to me) should be applauded. At the very least he had a go at fixing what he saw was a wrong where others merely whinged, unfortunately, when Hamm went it was always going to end badly. The Computer Audiophile, Josh Mound and wgscott 2 1 LOUNGE: Mac Mini - Audirvana - Devialet 200 - ATOHM GT1 Speakers OFFICE : Mac Mini - Audirvana - Benchmark DAC1HDR - ADAM A7 Active Monitors TRAVEL : MacBook Air - Dragonfly V1.2 DAC - Sennheiser HD 650 BEACH : iPhone 6 - HRT iStreamer DAC - Akimate Micro + powered speakers Link to comment
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