Burn $400 Instead of Buying This!
Hey, what's up guys, Keaton here.
So, I found this 400 dollar music player which means it just can't suck, right?
Like 400 dollars, music should sound the best I've ever heard in my life, so let's go and
check it out.
So this right here is the Pono music player.
It goes for 400 bucks, links below.
The reason why I bough this is this thing was funded on Kickstarter years ago and it
did so well, it raised like millions of dollars, tons of people bought this, and I don't know,
I'm just kind of excited to see if I've been missing stuff when I've been listening to
music.
Today, I might find one of those things that just blows me away, so we'll find that out.
So, this is the box that you get, and maybe this is starting to tell me why this thing
is 400 dollars.
That thing is crazy, this is, like, etched in here, too, with some sort of heat gun,
I think?
Like, just crazy.
I'm hoping the box is not the nicest part of this entire video.
Sliding this off.
You get a little note from their founder, cool.
Dear Pono listener, like, nice to meet you too, I don't actually know you, stop creeping.
Little manual, start guide, whatever.
And then the actual player, itself, here, you can see it's this, like, pyramid shape.
It's very different, I've never seen anything like this before.
And then you get some other boring stuff, a micro USB cable, haven't seen one of these
before, and then just a standard AC brick, It seems like nicer than your just, your standard
one, so, maybe this is where the money went.
We'll find out shortly.
So yeah, this is the Pono player.
It looks pretty badass.
It's got this, like, pyramidal shape.
I need to go back to geometry, but I know this is a right triangle here, so.
I mean, it looks really cool, this flap at the bottom fits a micro SD card, so there's
internal storage on here so you're covered in case you don't want to pick up a micro
SD card.
If you want to expand it, you can.
Charges by micro USB, standard stuff, and then at the top, we have our 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack, which might be getting killed soon on a certain phone.
- And yeah, that's pretty much it for what you get.
So, on the front, we have our screen, and this is actually a touch screen, which I guess
looking at the pictures I didn't really know if it would be, or if you would just have
to control it by these buttons, so it's a touch screen.
Got Drake's Views from the Six up, we'll check that out later, you can swipe between different
stuff on here.
So we got songs, playlists, all that fun stuff, and then lower the volume just with the minus
button.
Raise the volume with the plus button.
Simple stuff, and then this is just kind of, you pull up your controls here.
So play, pause, skip to the next song.
Controlla, controlla, such a good song.
You can actually tilt it to the side, kind of like, again, bringing you back to the old
smart phone days, or honestly, the old bar phones, or candy bar phones.
If you know what that is, drop a like on this video.
Seriously, you are an OG then.
Again, for 400 bucks, this things got to sound good, right?
The thing about the Pono player is there's no internet connection, so that means if you
want to put music on here, you have to do it with a computer, which is fine.
Like I had an iPod growing up.
This is the way things were done.
I know, not the same anymore.
So yeah, in order to put music on here, you got to plug it in with the micro USB cable
and then plug this thing into the computer, and you're pretty much all set.
But there's their own app on here, which, on the real, just opening this up, it's, it's
pretty ugly.
It's like ugly, and then it got even uglier.
I, yup.
Yup, alright, like, where'd the 400 dollars go, I don't really know.
It's almost like we are in the 90's and this is the first attempt at ever building something.
So, I hate using it.
It is, it's a , that's really all I can say about it.
So that's fine.
Now, to buy music, you have to go to their website and the website is better, but the
issue is it doesn't have all albums on there, which really sucks, because, like, I'm a huge
Kanye West fan and I wasn't able to find The Life of Pablo on there.
I got Drake's views, which we're going to check out more of, but it doesn't support
all albums.
And on their website, you can see kind of this chart of how high quality the audio is
since this is a high quality music player.
Yeah, their app sucks, and once you buy a song on their website, it then sends you a
link, that's if it doesn't hold your order, because it did for mine for 36 hours.
Couldn't listen to anything.
And then you download it in like their app store and then you transfer it over.
It just says music transfer right here.
So that's pretty much how you put music on here.
Now, I want to see if the Pono actually does sound better, so what we're going to do is
we're going to listen to the same album, Drake's Views, I spent 18 dollars to get it on here,
we're going to listen to it on the Pono player, and then, well, I was going to say we could
listen to it on my black iPhone, but I'm living this iPhone seven life til the iPhone seven
comes out, so we're going to listen to it on my other iPhone here, and just for perspective,
I have downloaded it, eh, streaming quality, it is downloaded to the extreme setting.
So it's the highest quality setting that Spotify supports.
We're going to listen to both with these headphones.
The Audio‑Technica ATH‑M50's, they sound awesome, especially for the price, don't tell
my Beats by Dre that, and I'm going to be blindfolded, and someone in front of me is
going to swap them.
I will have a bandana on as well as a sleep mask so there's no seeing through it, so let's
get listening.
Alright, can't see anything.
Now I really can't see anything, can't even see under me, so plug me in when you are ready.
What if he puts an iPod there?
I'd love that.
Even when I'm away, OT OT, there's never much love when we go OT.
A higher power's taking a hold on me.
Alright, time for the second device.
I think we lost the bandana here, still can't see anything.
Trust me on that.
Hi.
Can't wait to see some memes on Twitter for this.
Grips on your waist, front way, back way.
You know that I don't play.
That's why I need a one dance.
Got a Hennessy in my hand.
Going to spend time fighting.
Alright, I have had enough.
It is time to figure out which is which.
I'm going to say the first was the iPhone and the second was the Pono player.
Which one sounded better?
I think, honestly, I wasn't able to tell a difference.
Maybe it's my ears, you can thank my parents for that, because I didn't have good ears
when I was, like, I don't know, they honestly sounded the same.
They really did.
Nothing noticeable, nothing to justify 400 dollars and 18 dollars on an album.
So I was right, right?
Was I right?
I was right.
Well, alright then.
So yeah, the Pono player sucks, this thing, nobody should ever buy this thing.
That's how upset I am.
I'm a really happy kid, and I've never been this mad before.
Now I would return back to Amazon just because I'm within my 90 day policy, or whatever,
but no, one of yous going to buy this thing, I'm going to feel bad, so I'm not going to
do that.
You are literally better off burning 400 dollars than you are buy this thing.
So, that's what we're going to do.
I got 400 dollars right.
100, 200, 300, 400.
As you can see, we don't mess around here.
You're better off burning this money.
So, let's go ahead and do it.
Don't buy this thing.
It sucks.
So that's the end of this video.
As you can see, this 400 dollar piece of ruined my table and I just wasted 400 dollars on
it, so that's pretty much it for this video.
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Peace.