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pgwoooster

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  1. An elderly musician, whom you admire so much you'll gladly appear in a free Ad along side him, tells you about this awesome new sound system he has. It'll blow everything else out of the water. It like walking into sunshine after the cinema! It really is! Yep, no expectation bias there at all.
  2. I take my comment back unreservedly and my sincerest apologies Mr Young. You are Neil Young right?
  3. Hi All, New member here. And yes Im going to be negative. Heres the thing, noone can hear the difference between hi-rez and normal rez versions of the same master. Remastered music is fantastic, I love it. But guess what? A remastered 192k mp3 will sound much better than a hi-rez lossless version of a poor master. So unless everything (that sucks) is getting remastered, and by that I generally mean its not as loud, this whole thing is pointless. There's one other issue that really irritates me. Its the amount of sheer audiophile wank I hear, not just in the PRs already posted, but from the great man himself. "Hearing Pono for the first time is like that first blast of daylight when you leave a movie theatre on a sun-filled day." “The simplest way to describe what we’ve accomplished is that we’ve liberated the music of the artist from the digital file and restored it to its original artistic quality – as it was in the studio,” "MP3s have only x% of the musical info as an X" - Paraphrasing here obviously. Has he every blind tested this? I can guarantee his 68 year old ears cant tell the difference between 192k MP3 and hi-rez lossless. I'll also guarantee if you asked him if he could tell the difference between 320kps and CD , or CD and hi-rez he'd say "Of course I can. Its like night and day!". The idea for giving the benefit of the doubt to someone selling you an audiophile experience is laughable. Remember bit rates and resolution are to cables as mastering is to headphones and speakers. One matters the other doesn't. So yes lets all get up on our high horses and complain about poor mastering, but for Gods sake lets not get excited about listening to lossless hi-rez files outside a listening room. Pip Pip.
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