
So can your existing smartphone be used for HD audio? Yes, if you already own a recently launched smartphone.
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So would it make sense to invest instead in the Sony Walkman NW-ZX2 (128 GB internal storage), which runs on the Android 4.2 operating system and will cost £949 ( ₹ 88,500) when it officially hits stores in the next couple of months? Not really.

The Toblerone bar-style design makes it ungainly to handle, and doesn’t naturally fit well in the hand. But the PonoPlayer clearly doesn’t subscribe to that viewpoint. Modern-day product designers still follow the teachings of Bauhaus. Utility comes first," was the very first lesson (out of six) from the Bauhaus school of art and architecture in Weimar, Germany, in 1919. But does every music lover really need to invest $399 (around ₹ 24,000) in Pono’s Toblerone-inspired HD audio player? “Form should always reflect and enhance function. Music lovers will disagree, and those who have money will spend. Unless you have been listening to professional- grade audio on equally powerful and precisely tuned equipment (receivers, speakers, etc.), chances are you will not be able to spot the difference. The idea was to see if people could tell the difference.

They would play back HD audio files from very high-end hardware, but occasionally reduce that quality to 44.1 kHz/16 bit (audio CD quality). Moran did a blind test on a series of listeners over a period of time. But can the human ear really make out the difference between high-quality MP3s and HD music tracks? In a 2007 paper, titled Audibility Of A CD-Standard A/DA/A Loop Inserted Into High-Resolution Audio Playback, published in the Journal Of The Audio Engineering Society, E.
