Tune-Up Time

December, 2014

NEIL YOUNG LEADS THE CHARGE FOR AN AUDIO REVOLUTION It's time for the MP3 to fade away, according to Neil Young. The Godfather of Grunge re­cently revealed the PonoPlayer, a digital-music device he helped develop that plays high-resolution audio files that deliver up to 30 times the sound quality of MP3s. The growing high-resolution-audio movement hopes to upgrade the MP3 the way HDTV did tele­vision. To break it down: Default iTunes tracks deliver 256 kilobits per second of compressed audio, wh...