 Hey guys, this is Chris Welch with The Verge at CES Showstoppers taking a look at the Pono music player. This was a huge hit on Kickstarter, but this is our first chance seeing it in person. It's a music player meant for high res audio. So the design is pretty unique. It's a triangle, it's got a soft matte finish. You can buy it in black or orange. People who got it on Kickstarter have a nice custom edition that's actually clear. But for consumers it's orange or black. And the orange is actually a pretty nice color. It comes with 64 gigs of internal storage and you can expand that through micro SD up to 128 gigs. So this will hold pretty much all the music in your library and then some. It'll run for eight hours on a charge. You can store pretty much any kind of file you have. Flacks, Apple lossless, Wave, pretty much any kind of file. You can throw at this thing and it'll play it and sound pretty good doing it. It's not really meant for everybody. Whether you can appreciate the difference in sound quality is really on a per person basis. But obviously some people can. This thing raised a ton of money on Kickstarter so it seems there are people who are really eager for the high res audio experience and that kind of thing. The software is very basic. It's based on Android. The screen isn't amazing but it does the job. And you've got your volume controls here. A nice big indicator up and down. If you want to pause just the middle button. So the real story here is obviously sound and it sounds pretty fantastic. I've played a few tracks. Everything sounds very deep, very robust. So if you've got really nice headphones or an app or any of that sort of thing, you're going to be a person who really wants this set up. You can tell a difference between this and your iPhone or your Android phone. This pumps out really great sounding music. It's $399 and you can buy it right now. It's shipping in black or orange. There's a ton of high end audio stuff here at CES. We're going to take a look at quite a bit of it. So be sure to visit youtube.com slash the verge for the latest videos and all the latest gear here at CES 2015.
 Hey guys, this is Chris Welch with The Verge at CES Showstoppers taking a look at the Pono
 music player.
 This was a huge hit on Kickstarter, but this is our first chance seeing it in person.
 It's a music player meant for high res audio.
 So the design is pretty unique.
 It's a triangle, it's got a soft matte finish.
 You can buy it in black or orange.
 People who got it on Kickstarter have a nice custom edition that's actually clear.
 But for consumers it's orange or black.
 And the orange is actually a pretty nice color.
 It comes with 64 gigs of internal storage and you can expand that through micro SD up
 to 128 gigs.
 So this will hold pretty much all the music in your library and then some.
 It'll run for eight hours on a charge.
 You can store pretty much any kind of file you have.
 Flacks, Apple lossless, Wave, pretty much any kind of file.
 You can throw at this thing and it'll play it and sound pretty good doing it.
 It's not really meant for everybody.
 Whether you can appreciate the difference in sound quality is really on a per person
 basis.
 But obviously some people can.
 This thing raised a ton of money on Kickstarter so it seems there are people who are really
 eager for the high res audio experience and that kind of thing.
 The software is very basic.
 It's based on Android.
 The screen isn't amazing but it does the job.
 And you've got your volume controls here.
 A nice big indicator up and down.
 If you want to pause just the middle button.
 So the real story here is obviously sound and it sounds pretty fantastic.
 I've played a few tracks.
 Everything sounds very deep, very robust.
 So if you've got really nice headphones or an app or any of that sort of thing, you're
 going to be a person who really wants this set up.
 You can tell a difference between this and your iPhone or your Android phone.
 This pumps out really great sounding music.
 It's $399 and you can buy it right now.
 It's shipping in black or orange.
 There's a ton of high end audio stuff here at CES.
 We're going to take a look at quite a bit of it.
 So be sure to visit youtube.com slash the verge for the latest videos and all the latest
 gear here at CES 2015.