Fucking disgusting. Marketing FLAC to the masses and calling it new/revolutionary? What the fuck? Hell, most people aren't even going to have the speakers and headphones required to hear the sound difference between MP3s and FLAC, so it's all just going to be marketing bullshit.

And most people can just get FLAC versions of their music anyway. No need for a special $400 player. I can do that shit on my laptop or phone.

Where's my central music source? That's what I really want. I want Imeem back. A place to go where I can get any and every album I want, regardless of country of origin or genre.

Sound quality is fine. MP3s sound great if you get 320kbps files with some decent headphones. FLAC doesn't really improve that much unless you have a high quality speaker set and a good ear.

Edit: Their video with musicians was disgusting as well. Really? Those guys had no clue what they were talking about. "CD quality" as described by PONO is simply MP3 320. I listen to that every day, of course it's much better than MP3 192. As for the amazing sound, it's obviously because those guys are listening to cheap headphones (probably beats) and then comparing it to a top of the line car speaker.

As soon as I heard "hasn't been that good since vinyl" is when I realized they were clueless. Vinyl is worse not better than digital. Analog is worse as well. Because you have artifacting and sound distortion because of the format. It changes the sound, and IMO for the worse.

I'm sad to see musicians being blown away by what is now old tech. I'm guessing they are just stuck in the past and don't really care much about modern music formats. I'm sure if you let musicians that are also into tech (probably in genres like techno, dub step, etc.) you'd get a lot more people who are educated in music formats.

This is just sad.