Neil Young on Why High-Resolution Music Matters - Supersession FULL 2015

[@Lblu1181]

"Music, the ears are the window to the soul," thank-you for caring about music, Neil, high-quality audio can increase the quality of our lives, it Does make a difference. Appreciate!

[@davidreeves9105]

Good ole Neil maintains his cutting edge edge opinions on politics to the environment and the audio file world in the world of R&R’N were lucky to have a man of his intelligence and awareness to lend his helping hand to point the way gives us a honest perspective about the consequences for listening to the music in our life in such a kind way. Thanks 💟🎙☮️DR🎵

[@JB19504]

I'm an old guy. I remember the days in the 70's with a Technics Turntable. a high quality Pioneer amp and massive JBL L300 speakers playing Fleetwood Mac Rumours. Then came Donald Fagen's the Nightfly, yeah it was digital but it sounded great. People would sit around and listen to music as a thing. Now we listen to music mainly in our cars. I have an iPhone with 5000 songs at 320kps MP3s. Apple Car Play sounds OK, but not like my old stereo.

[@latourhighendaudio]

First I want to say thank you to Neil Young for getting the word out that sound quality matters. I'm also glad he feels analog is still the king and that digital has its limits even at the highest sample rate. My only question which I still have not been able to get answered is there is no mention what the native format is the music your purchasing was recorded in and what sample rate its was transferred to. I certainly don't want to be buying upsampled 44.1 16 bit files I can do that myself, I want to know I am buying true high resolution native format files. The higher resolution files can make a HUGE difference in sound if the original recording is good, and the mastering engineer did a good job converting it.

[@xruraldustx]

He did explain that Pono audio has to be certified as absolutely lossless at the highest bit rate technology can produce right now

[@SailingTaranto]

However, Pono music is STILL only available to people who live in the USA via the store he talks about. Which is a real hassle for all the global citizens with a Pono in their hands. Its a record company thing, but boy does it suck.

[@edwardbliss8931]

Yeah this worked out well. Instead of using all the time and energy on this, he should've focused on speaking out against all the autotuned corporate-driven pop that's dominating the music industry. Maybe this would've sparked a backlash and a new music revolution would've started.

[@lawrencerasmus]

Someone conned Neil, only in my mind does 92 sound better than 48

[@davidayer2168]

'Fraid so

[@adz693]

7:44 Neil seems to forget (or doesn't know) that his Harvest DVD-Audio is 192kHz in Stereo so the DVD-A format was capable of Pono quality.

[@hurkamur1]

Moving on.... , seriously though, I love my dvd-a and sacd, but dvd is dead and sacd is stagnant, and blu-audio doesn't seem to be gaining much steam. I like that he keeps pushing forward for us.

[@ohjoy40]

Cerastes it's not bull shit. Most consumers don't understand digital how it works and that there are sound differences from recording to playback and that every aspect of that effects sound quality. Digital is not just digital and doesn't mean your getting all the information if it's digital. Sampling rate does effect the quality of sound, sure bandwidth and digital brick wall filters do effect sound quality but there is much more than that. My job is to make the average consumer or for that matter anyone who enjoys music understand that if its digital doesn't mean your getting the best sound from it.

[@jeanie51156]

I am so excited to get my PONO on!

[@techgeek1874]

I'm wondering what you do with that triangular piece of shit now that it's discontinued.

[@endezeichengrimm]

You could have bought a Fiio for much less and gotten the same sound quality.

[@AceFurley]

i'm still holding out for the return of 8-track! Foghat just doesn't rock as hard when you don't have to flip the tape over in the middle of a song!!!

[@stageb3299]

Hmmm, even now on Pono Music store there are not many albums in hi-res. Even Neil Young is mostly 44.1, I hope he will release all 192/24 albums. Are the many 44.1 albums there now the highest the artists have released to Pono? The second battle is getting the artists to record hi-res as a standard if they are not already.

[@markgrunzweig6377]

A LP holds about 20 min. of music per side. The attention span of an adult is 20 minutes. Then one turns it over then on is ready to her the next 20 min. The record is 12 inches wide. Many deep important things in life, have a 12 to 20 relationship.

[@patm5086]

neil as a salesman

[@rvm2112]

Don't knock it till you've heard it. I've had my player for almost a year now, and my music collection has never sounded better. Pono fan for life!

[@davidayer2168]

Hi, it's 2019, any follow up thoughts?

[@techgeek1874]

I've heard it. It's fucking shit. Fiio, Sony, Astell and kern beats this player to the death. Hell a fucking a15 walkman sounds better than this shitty player and that walkman is really tiny. What a shame. I am a glad owner of a WM1Z and a Zx507 both sound wayy better than that triangle shit.

[@techgeek1874]

@@davidayer2168 The pono player and the website is shut down. Lol. Neil Young failed miserably. Old shit is listening to his shitty songs on X stream. Neil is a really deluded individual.

[@OseiKwadwo-qc1ku]

Pono and their voice

[@steffenbuettner4294]

The car radio thing??? What the actual hell...that's just FULL of BS

[@Pimp-Master]

I enjoy low-fi, especially taped demos of bands --but only unless my copy is 12 generations away. But I gotta hand it to the hi-fi crowd like Neil because how would we know bad quality unless there was some comparison?

[@sonicfoxxmusic4281]

Aaaaahhh....the days when it was all about the quality of the song-writing...guess the following song won't make it onto Pono then Neil...big- boy labels only. Recently a £50 recording of a song seemed to jerk a former top music critic back out into critiquing the following song with this opinion. THE CHILD by URBAN SEASCAPE. " Nice arrangement. Cool acoustic guitar, intro and groove. Voice is not flashy but very sincere. It got nice and interesting at 1.29 when the female vocal floated with more muscle under the lead singer with nice haunting support. Good thud-like drum and this lead singer had a good understanding of what words were important to emphasise. Played with pronunciation cleverly. Struck an effective balance with soft and louder passages. Drama built perfectly.." a child, that once was me"...COMPELLING.This is a winner. Wish you luck with this. Far, far better than the fluff that is offered by radio and commercial music hawkers. CHALK THIS ONE UP TO THE WIN COLUMN SONIC FOXX MUSIC" You decide Joe Public.

[@sonicfoxxmusic4281]

OHHH...and there is the amazing vocal and songs of JASMINE LAMPORT...google SONIC FOXX MUSIC...you'll find them all...if you like mellow...you'll love Sonic Foxx Music.

[@JohnnyLen]

what was the todd rundgren joke at 25:30

[@TMBTM]

Do I really need a Pono player to listen to the high res Pono Flac files? Can play them on my PC (with good speakers of course!) for example? And THEN maybe buy the player to bring the music with me.

[@PopBodhi]

I've been listening to the FLAC files from Pono Music Store on my Mac without any trouble.

[@TMBTM]

PopBodhi Thanks :)

[@leebrierley7289]

One listen and you will want one, there is a difference!!

[@techgeek1874]

There really isn't. CD and streaming have gotten really good and are better than this shitty hippy's awful website or 24 bit files.

[@Brandon-th4xx]

@@techgeek1874 by shitty hippie do you mean someone who has been a relevant musician for 50 years, an engineer, producer, is well knowm for his mixing and sound technibility, plays multiple instruments, an inventor?... the list goes on..... never heard of you.. so if he is a shitty hippie what the fuck does that make you?

[@claudiecotet7927]

Listen to Mark waldrep 's demystifying the high res Video and you know More about Manipulation sad to hear the truth about Stars and Idols only salesmen or -women....

[@anthonyrippo1223]

What ever happened to PONO ? Think it was marketed all wrong. Lots of ways to listen to hi res files without a pono player. I have a Herbie Hancok Pono player i really never used.

[@leapsplashafrog]

Very few people have the money to get yet another portable player. Why can't digital MP3 music be released at a higher data range? Of course it is being but not yet as high as it could be. Good on Neil though as a spin off of this player apple will have to compete and put the quality up

[@vietvooj]

If Hi-Res Pono is like vinyl, that it must be crap. It's clear: If you sell a bottle of 5€ wine for 100€ than people will "feel" the quality of the high-priced wine.

[@steffenbuettner4294]

He's got a point about the fact that high-res audio files should be more available, however WHAT THE HELL, OH MY GOD, so much shit around that...he's obviously trying to sell his product, but oh lord is he talking shit... Your shitty record player, amp and speaker you described somehow is still better than a lower bitrate, lower sample, slightly muddy in the highs, MP3??? There is no objective OR sensible subjective way in which that can be argued...just my 2 cents

[@63supercobrajet]

The entire Audio industry and their dynamic "loudness" wars ruined the audio "listening" industry, and they didn't even care. These Gold-coin-counting nymph's, and ogre's, and gnome's, only cared about their almighty $dollar profits. Same goes for iTunes, they either change and offer HQ-Audio (flac...), or become part of the elevator "musak" world. ALL musicain's simply wanted their (digitized-Master-Taped) Music to be "accurately" reproduced, and listenable for all the world. Blu-ray Audio, if simply boxed properly, with the exact same manufacturing costs as the old audio CD, had the capability to right all these wrong, and more. If nothing else, Blu-ray+, with it's massive amount of archival storage abilities could be used for that now. But NOOO, once again, the cheapness of mis-managed greed, and to save nothing, had to rear it's ugly head again. !? I hope the entire "Audio-CD" intrutry dies a very quick death -as it most righteously deserves now, and instead of wasting anymore money on that -put it back into QUALITY Audio-Engineering, and Mixing,..., where it belonged in the first place, and ba-bye to these Audio-CD-beer-coaster makers forever.

[@josegimenezsalazar5269]

pono

[@russhughes8631]

"Who needs no introduction" at which point you say "Neil Young" not give an introduction.

[@endezeichengrimm]

He doesn't understand what the hell he is talking about.

[@jacquesthomassin3079]

vinyl is the way......

[@patm5086]

indeed

[@patm5086]

the music industry had it right early on with analog recording mastered to vinyl in mono. all the rest sounds shitty. soulless times, soulless sound. neil knows this, I'm sure. everybody wants $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for bullshit

[@vesternor]

good luck

[@Hermiel]

Anyone interested in a more nuanced take on Digital Audio would do very well to watch Monty Montgomery's excellent video, 'Digital Show And Tell' at www.xiph.org/video/vid2, and read his accompanying article, '24/192 Music Downloads ...and why they make no sense' at xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html. The video and the article are crystal-clear and grounded in real, actual, observable science. God Bless Neil Young!

[@stephencash1220]

Oh No Pono what Happened to Musik

[@lawrencerasmus]

Boy! someone fed him a load of crap

[@patm5086]

fuck this I will just keep listening to vinyl. does listening to music have to be such an anal experience.

[@hairymarx]

"This Bud's for you"......LOL.

[@ArtFernandez1]

Neil knows what he is talking about. Just listen to him.

[@ArtFernandez1]

Neil is saying, iPods, Apple is degenerating the sound quality with MP3 quality sound. The sound quality is not music, like vinyl was. Listen to this video very informative.

[@endezeichengrimm]

Listen to a 44.1KHz 16bit wav file on the ipod.

[@xruraldustx]

I love Neil and I think Pono is a great move towards pushing higher end audio formats but he should use a different spokesman. I think I know what he's trying to get at but when arguing points especially comparing vinyl to Pono he looses his ground and contradicts himself a lot. He's just not a good salesman.