PonoPlayer Review
Welcome to WFNK.com’s review of the PonoPlayer. I’ve broken the review into sections available from this table of contents. If you need a quick summary version, jump to Section 10. ‘How does it sound’ is in Section 8.
1. A Sense Of It All
2. Stay Righteous & Stay Human
3. The Digital Re-Creation
4. Quest For Perfection
5. Dinosaurs With Good Ears
6. Bootlegger’s Refrain
7. Neil Asks Steve ‘Why Not?’
8. PonoPlayer Basics
9. Real World Listening
10. Cliff Let You Borrow His Notes
Addendum: Long Term Update (5 months with PonoPlayer)
Addendum II: Other PonoPlayer reviews
Scot Hull – Part-Time Audiophile – 11/19/14
Michael Sawh – Trusted Reviews – 1/8/15
Rick Schmidt – Home Theater High Fidelity 2/9/15
What Hi-Fi? – 2/13/15
– C-Net – 3/12/15
Sam Berkow – SIA Acoustics – 3/16/15
John Atkinson – Stereophile – 3/23/15
Raymond Wong – Mashable – 3/23/15
Tyll Hertsens – Inner Fidelity – 3/26/15
Related Materials:
On Youtube’s version of HD Audio
No animals were harmed in the writing of this review, except for me constantly knocking my idiot cat off the armrest.
First published at http://wfnk.com/blog/ponoplayer-review/ on 01-04-2015.
Special thanks to John Siracusa and his monster reviews of OSX for motivation to get this thing done.