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shieber:
For the quality of the sound, alone it's worth $400 and more, even if you have to labor with the still quirky interface and a somewhat finiky version of Jrivers for data manager and store interface.


Just look how long it took apple to get iTunes/ipod halfway decent.

--- Quote from: MyKart on February 23, 2015, 11:50:17 am ---No. The music files sound great. If you can't hear the difference, you aren't comparing apples to apples or you have a tin-ear. However, the player, itself, sucks. Buggy interface, buggy PonoMusic App. Not worth $400 until improvements emerge.

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Skaterstu:
Here are my two cents...

The Pono sound is great, no question about that.  However, the overall experience so far is one of immense disappointment.

1)  I didn't get my signed certificate from Neil Young...  I got my friend in USA to order for me in Nov and he told me that nothing came through in terms of a signed certificate.  I hear that many people also had this problem.

2)  Pono Music Store is awful, and at best cumbersome, at times unusable.  It's only for USA, and is slow, unresponsive.  Whoever designed it should be fired as it's an incredibly poor interface.

3)  Pono software on the device itself is poor..  there are times that I don't touch the screen and it starts selecting albums itself..  occasionally songs skip around and it can be annoying.

So far I love the sound, but the Pono experience is not up to scratch, in fact its far from acceptable.  Bottom line...  don't release a product that is so faulty that its gonna alienate the customers, especially those outside the USA.  To me this seems incredibly counter productive, and incredibly naive.

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