RAIN Poll: How important is hi-fi in mobile music?

Pono Music completed a wildly successful Kickstarter funding campaign, raising nearly eight times the $800,000 goal. Neil Young’s fledgling company promises an ecosystem (download store plus specialized mobile player) for high-fidelity music. The premise is that portable music files (MP3 and other formats) is highly compressed for quick downloading, cutting out many of the sonic qualities that make modern recordings great.

Audiophile listening is usually a niche, not mainstream — but the Kickstarter success gives us pause.

How important is high-quality music reproduction to you, when listening through a portable device? Important enough to carry a new gadget in addition to your phone? Vote your opinion! And expand your thoughts in the comment section; we’ll publish the best comments with poll results in a few days.

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