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摘要

You've got to admit it: The argument for the Pono Player sure is appealing-that we don't know what we've been missing in our music. Unfortunately, it isn't true. WHY THIS MATTERS: Pogue conducted a blind trial to find out if 15 volunteers could hear any difference between Pono's high-res files and Apple's iTunes files (16-bit/256Kbps AAC format). The results surprised him, and touched off an interesting discussion of compression, formats, and remastering.