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Podcast: The Vergecast
Episode: Neil Young says the Macbook Pro has “Fisher-Price” audio quality
Description: Musician Neil Young and tech executive Phil Baker have been trying to push the tech industry to make it easier for consumers to listen to high-quality audio for almost a decade now. The duo’s hi-res music player Pono aimed to fix problems they said plagued MP3 players like the iPod and music software like iTunes — like compressed, lossy, and low-fidelity audio files that were not similar enough to their original recordings.But five years after the Pono was released, Young believes the tech industry has still not advanced enough for consumers to easily listen to high reso...