A couple of years ago I wrote about Neil Young’s ideas for a new kind of ipod-style music player that would accurately reproduce the very high level of music quality found in the original studio masters. Over the years he has expressed increasing discontent with the way that ipods and other devices reduce the quality of the artist’s original material and he talks at length about this in his autobiography.
It now looks as if this was far more than Neil day dreaming about what might be possible in an ideal world. He’s announced that the project to build such a device is up and running and seeking funding via the crowd-funding service KickStarter.
The device will be called a Pono – Hawaiian for righteous. As the blurb says:
“What righteous means to our founder Neil Young is honoring the artist’s intention, and the soul of music.”
Sounds pure Neil Young to me – you can read a lot more technical stuff at PonoMusic.com.
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