Tuesday, March 11, 2014

PonoPlayer: an alternative to the iPod from consultant Steve Jobs

October 23, 2001 in the world of portable music players has been revolutionized . 


Steve Jobs presented the public with a portable player iPod. "We all love music. She became a part of life. It's time to show a real hit the music industry. 1000 songs , 5 GB of memory , the player that fits into your pocket ... Meet - iPod », - as Steve Jobs introduced the world's first iPod music player from Apple.
 Neil Young , rock musician from Canada, at the time advised Steve Jobs, offering to release the player with the " perfect sound ." But the project went awry only now.

For true audiophile quality sound playback iPod, is not always enough . Even during his lifetime , Jobs was planning to release a special version of iPod, designed for lovers really perfect and undistorted sound. Despite the fact that it was the founder of Apple has made a significant breakthrough in the world of digital music at home, he always preferred to compressed audio tracks vinyl records .
Project to develop a capacious and incomparable sound quality of the iPod was finally collapsed after the death of the founder of Apple. But Neil Young decided to pursue the case , presenting player PonoPlayer.

"When you first hear the sound PonoPlayer, you imagine how get out of the dark theater on a bright sunny meadow "

Despite the fact that the final price for a 128GB version will be slightly biting - $ 400 , Young notes that the quality of music this " baby " is incomparable with a 160- gigabyte version of the iPod Classic.
Neil Young himself is an avid opponent of music, having a high compression ratio. " Listen MP3 - then rob himself ," - says the musician .
On March 15, will be posted on PonoPlayer kraudfaydingovoy site Kickstarter. 
Will the 67 -year-old Neil Young to make another revolution in the world FLAC and APE - time will tell.

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