Pono woes: Neil Young bemoans "lack of resources" for expanding the reach of the lossless music player<article>
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<p>Neil Young’s music startup Pono is running into money problems as it tries to spread the gospel of high-fidelity music.</p><p>In a
Facebook post, Young said the company has shipped “tens of thousands” of its
PonoPlayers, which cost $400 and aim to replicate the sound quality of original master recordings. (Roughly 15,000 of those buyers presumably came from
Pono’s Kickstarter campaign.) Pono users have also purchased “hundreds of thousands” of tracks from the company’s online store, where audio quality ranges from 44.1kHz/16-bit up to 192kHz/24-bit.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2975837/software-music/pono-woes-neil-young-bemoans-lack-of-resources-for-expanding-the-reach-of-the-lossless-music-player.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Pono woes: Neil Young bemoans "lack of resources" for expanding the reach of the lossless music player
