I use earbuds right now and I swear they are giving me tinnitus (more than usual anyway).
― Sufjan Cougar Mellencamp (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
it's my understanding that hey are much worse for your ears than over the ear cups
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
I always thought etymotic research style passive noise reduction earbuds were best for your ears? In that they block out so much noise they allow you to listen at lower volumes
― anonanon, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
that could be, but those are hardly the most common experience for most ppl with earbud, which i think in general is cranking the shit out of regular ones
― Juelz Fantano (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
I bought a pair of Klipsch after a couple of pair of Sennheisers broke for no apparent reason. They have been excellent so far.
― Angkor Waht (Neil S), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:36 (ten years ago) link
I have a pair of Sony MDR-V600s, which I think have been discontinued. They were a little pricey ($100), but I've used them daily for the last 13 years and have had no problems whatsoever (except with the foam dealies, but those are easily and cheaply replaceable).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:44 (ten years ago) link
One thing I hated about "Her" was how he had to wear that earpiece ALL THE TIME. If I had to wear earbuds all the time I think my ear would just die.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
Earbuds are worst for tinnitus, closed over the ear cans are second worst, open over the ear cans are best. Or so they say and my own tinnitus reaction has borne this out.
― hundreds-swarm-dinkytown (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 April 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
Neil Young's proprietary new headphone, where the mastering engineer sits on your shoulder and sings the song lovingly into your ear.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Thursday, 17 April 2014 11:32 (ten years ago) link
"Unsuspecting Teens Try Pono": http://vimeo.com/91084885
(I assume "teens" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "unsuspecting teens try a walkman" thing, since most of these people are clearly in their late 20s - 30s)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 24 April 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
"Unsuspecting" "teens"
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:41 (ten years ago) link
Needless to say that video is the most transparently unconvincing piece of marketing I think I've ever witnessed.
― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
i'm seriously so in love with the fact that on the eve of pono's kickstarter success, neil released an album that literally has the fidelity of a 1928 78s recording
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 24 April 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
that's my dogg right there
...why does that video make the hipster in me want to start hating vinyl ?
― bodacious ignoramus, Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Choosy teens choose Pono
― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 30 April 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/you-can-now-invest-in-neil-youngs-ponomusic-20140813
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
New campaign will allow public to invest in the high-end music player for as little as $5,000
Phew.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
This has been dragging on too long. Just put out a reel-to-reel machine you can wear on your back and be done with it.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Man I would totally do this but I already invested all of my future failed businesses fund in a company that makes vending machines for steampunk hats. You can choose from five different kinds of brass gears!
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
We don't need Neil finding out about Steampunk.
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 August 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
That most recent album is so close, though, I'm surprised he's not performing it live at uh... Steamcons? Is that what they call it when those people get together?
― oblique blasphemies (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:11 (nine years ago) link
You guys are crazy. When people see the reaction of Stephen Stills at :44 of the promotional video, this thing is going to take off like a rocket.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 14 August 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link
Everybody's jerking off to the ever-elusive ponography.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
i got to listen to one a couple of weeks ago. sound quality was great on the lossless files and i liked that it had a line-out and 128GB as standard. but i could hear all the flaws in my shitty compressed files, in a way that i don't notice on my £40 sandisk clip zip.
― koogs, Friday, 15 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
cool, would you consider getting one?
but i could hear all the flaws in my shitty compressed files
are you talking 128s or even decent quality like 320?
― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 August 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
oggs on default quality 8) (i'm one of those greedy people who'd rather have 5000 files than 2000 whilst walking around)
(roughly equiv to 128kbps mp3s. that said, i later listened to the original flac that i bought from bandcamp and THAT also sounded shitty. not sure whether somewhere in the recording / upload chain it hadn't been converted down and then up again)
as for whether i'd get one, $300399 buys an awful lot of cds. plus i'd be scared of losing it somewhere, even if it is bright yellow and hard to miss (whereas £40 of mp3 player i'm not so bothered about).
― koogs, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
yeah I can't really tell the difference between 320 and 192 most of the time but I can pick out 128 in seconds
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 15 August 2014 18:27 (nine years ago) link
I'm waiting for a Pono with a built-in speaker so that I can make everything around me sound better. I suggest they design it to look like this:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B7tFVbj40gc/ULwgE5rzTlI/AAAAAAAAGEA/glRohpR68MI/s640/DSC01147.JPG*
*Neil Young not included.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
what happened to Neil's right hand
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
Lost in the music.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 15 August 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
what is up with this stupid gadget is it out yet, is it vaporware, did yr dad buy one
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
per his howard stern appearance:
The first batch of Pono players are sold out. "We're going to try and make more in January," he said. "We're starting to build and scale up, but the demand for them was awesome…We're making this for people that want it. We're not making it for people that don't want it, but they may not know then want it until they hear it. It's a gentle revolution. We're not trying to bowl over the world. We don't think success is anything you can tangibly see. It's a smile."
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 October 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
oh god neil young has prosopagnosia
― gbx, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
TOP PONO ARTISTS1. Neil Young2. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers3. Pearl Jam4. Foo Fighters5. Patti Smith6. James Taylor7. Kenny Rogers8. Elton John9. Norah Jones10. Beck
I think that should be enough information for you to tell whether this device is for you.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
ha, nice work glenn
― sleeve, Tuesday, 14 October 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
Neil should pitch Pono on Shark Tank.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:10 (nine years ago) link
he'd do well because he would not be able to see the horror and disappointment on the judges faces
― GhostTunes on my Pono (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 00:17 (nine years ago) link
"We're going to try and make more in January,"
That's good CEOing, Neil, I hope you get around to it.
― ...and Lou Reed as Dr. Eldon Tyrell (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 01:25 (nine years ago) link
Will reserve judgement until I can hear "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)."
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
I still can't figure out how/why this would work. I was poking around the store and there's tons of albums that I'm sure haven't had the master tapes touched in years
Like what would these be sourced from?
https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=product&oId=of%3A7ab373c879474d4abf3e49cd35c3876e&type=Album&artistId=undefined
https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=product&oId=of%3Aea230df5f6244f71bd38387d380ab3ac&type=Album&artistId=undefined
https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=product&oId=of%3Ae91955fa357b44aca239600e75e9f9c4&type=Album&artistId=undefined
― ILOVEMASONNA (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 05:19 (nine years ago) link
i just poked around the store for the first time and couldn't help noticing that the album cover displayed with neil young's decade is the cd version, complete with the message "a 3-record set on 2 compact discs":
https://ponomusic.force.com/ccrz__CCPage?pageKey=product&oId=of%3Aaad0a2306828429aa46d9c2aaa138fb9&type=Album&artistId=undefined
pono should have pristine analog vinyl album art, no?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 06:17 (nine years ago) link
Hahahaha Whiney how did you miss the hype over Light in the Attic's Alien Ant Farm reissues
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
Whiney are you okAre you ok
― ...and Lou Reed as Dr. Eldon Tyrell (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
are you okay, Whiney
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:29 (nine years ago) link
Waiting for the release of Pono: Volume II.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
As he poked around the PonoIt was switched from line to phonoHe came into the web siteHe left beside himself, somethin ain't right
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 October 2014 13:47 (nine years ago) link
Does anyone know anything about this site? I'm slightly intrigued but probably at those prices I'd just buy physical albums
http://www.hdtracks.com/
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
i think that's the go-to site for audiophile 24 bit downloads, that was one of the things ppl were saying about the PONO store is that it was basically just trying to be HD Tracks which was already pretty robust
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 October 2014 00:43 (nine years ago) link
the thing that sucks about the audiophile industry and that rhetoric is that it's created this impression that it's all this crazy, ridiculous multi-thousand dollar thing that's not attainable for regular folks when the reality is the opposite! we're in a golden age of affordable great sound equipment....for a few hundred you could get some great self-powered speakers by a quality manufacturer and an entry level DAC that would knock your socks off! heck for, around 1000 or 1200 you could outfit a great turntable, amp, and speakers! it's really never been easier or cheaper than it is right now and the difference might surprise you...hell, i'm listening to $30 Monoprice headphones right now at work that would destroy expensive ones from the 80s or 90s...it's insane!― gimme the lute (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:15 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i would love a series of no-nonsense recommendations for relatively inexpensive but excellent audio components that i could buy one at a time toward the end of having a relatively inexpensive but excellent audio system to play LPs, CDs, MP3s, FLACs... and listen to the radio.
if you go on the internet there's simply so much info, and I have little sense of what sources to trust. it seems for every piece of gear there's one person saying this is a godsend and another saying it's a piece of junk.
i'm suspicious of HD tracks, can anyone tell the difference between your standard FLACs and 24-bit FLACs? i mean, you'd have to have a pretty incredible sound system to even begin to notice the difference, no? i'm not yet completely convinced I can usually hear the difference between a good V0/320 MP3 rip and a FLAC rip. at least not on my stereo system (much less on my laptop).
anyway...
i'd love good recommendations for...
- a good DAC for my mac laptop- a excellent turntable for under $500
now, my receiver/stereo has phono input, do i still need/want a standalone phono preamp?
sorry i know this is the PONO thread but people seem to be talking all things audio.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 16 October 2014 03:34 (nine years ago) link