Apparently, this new Pono music player which was just announced earlier this year, did not see audiophiles rate it better than the audio playback on an iPhone from Apple. Talk about a high profile Kickstarter project that turned reality not really living up to expectations! The hardware on the Pono will arrive with a couple of 3.5mm audio jacks which will see action in a “balanced mode,” where it claims to separate left and right channel outputs across both jacks in order to be used alongside high-impedance headphones, high-end home stereo systems, or professional equipment
Yahoo Tech’s David Pogue, who happens to be a professional musician, discovered that sound quality between the Pono and the iPhone did not have any major difference, and neither could he tell the difference in a blind audio test. Not the most auspicious of starts for Pono, don’t you think so?