![]() Naturally, this being the Internet, there are detractors too. But these are just minor bumps along the road (an interview with both Neil Young and John Hamm has been published on our sister site: Then Pono CEO John Hamm (no, not the ‘Mad Men’ star) was caught out by the words, “What’s your cut?” shouted from the audience during the SXSW presentation. Also, when it comes to the promo Kickstarter video, it’s hard to take Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers seriously when he praises Pono’s sound quality, given the band’s Californication album could be considered a war crime in the Loudness Wars… but maybe it’s not his fault. ![]() There was also the question of who would design the hardware despite a well-publicised visit to Meridian’s factory in Cambridge, UK, the actual design was kept under wraps. Then, Pono was slated to be a 2013 project, but suffered some slippage. ![]() In the audiophile world, the first was a swipe by Linn Products CEO Gilad Tiefenbrun, calling the device ‘misguided’ ( ), although in fairness, Gilad later retracted this comment and is now quite the Ponophile (now that’s a word that needs to be put out there, even if typos might prove problematic). There have been some slip-ups along the way. At one point earning $700 per minute, Pono has currently raised more than $2.65m at the time of writing. Whether a shrewd marketing scheme or a need to raise further capital remains unclear, but Young announced a Kickstarter campaign (complete with testimonials from a host of big name musos Young, young and old) to raise an additional $800,000 in order to bring the player to market in the third quarter of this year. We learned at SXSW about the Ayre connection, and that PonoPlayer will not be locked into PonoMusic content, but can play high-res material from other sources. More information springs up almost hourly. We guessed as much when Neil Young went to visit Meridian Audio last year, but it was fellow apodizing filter-supporting Ayre Acoustics that was involved in the design of the player proper. Specs confirmed at this time are that PonoPlayer will support files up to 24bit, 192kHz in FLAC format, it has a line and headphone output, the analogue stages are zero-feedback designs, it comes with 64GB of on-board memory and a further 64GB of microSD storage, uses an ESS 9018 ‘Sabre’ DAC and minimium-phase apodizing filter. PonoPlayer is a portable audio player, designed to bring high-resolution audio to a new audience (it’s intended to be $399 at launch). Pono is a system, comprising the device itself (PonoPlayer) and a music store (PonoMusic). In late 2012, Young appeared on Letterman clutching a five-inch long, bright yellow triangular device with a screen and a few keys last year. So, when less than 18 months ago, Young announced he was going to make a high-resolution audio system called Pono, perhaps we shouldn’t have been surprised.ĭetails were, at first, sketchy. All of which makes him in hindsight an obvious proponent of high-resolution audio. He has matured nicely into the music business’ finest curmudgeon, and he has become one of the most visible and outspoken champions of good sound quality at a time of poor sounding recordings. Wine-cooler is 1815 as "vessel in which bottled wine is kept cool " by 1977 as a type of wine-based beverage.You’ve got to love Neil Young. Essentially the same word as vine (q.v.). Īlso from Latin vinum (some perhaps via Germanic) are Old Church Slavonic vino, Polish wino, Russian vino, Lithuanian vynas, Welsh gwin, Old Irish fin, Gaelic fion. ![]() However, if we put the homeland of viticulture in the Pontus and the northern Balkans, the word for 'wine' might come from there. However, as the cultivation of the vine started in the Mediterranean region, in the Pontus area and in the south of the Caucasus, most scholars are inclined to look for the origin of the word in these countries. Old English win "wine," from Proto-Germanic *winam (source also of Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German win, Old Norse vin, Dutch wijn, German Wein), an early borrowing from Latin vinum "wine," from PIE *uoin-a-, related to words for "wine" in other southern European languages (Greek oinos, Albanian Gheg vênë), also Armenian ( gini), Hittite ( uiian(a)-), and non-Indo-European Georgian and West Semitic (Arabic wain, Hebrew yayin).Īccording to Watkins, probably from a lost Mediterranean language word *win-/*woin- "wine." However, Beekes argues that the word is of Indo-European origin, related to Greek itea "willow," Latin vītis "vine," and other words, and they may be derived from the root *wei- "to turn, bend."Īs the wild vine was indigenous in southern Russia and in certain parts of central Europe, this assumption is acceptable from a historical point of view.
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