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hey guys this is Chris mulch with a verge at CES showstoppers take a look at the pono music player this was a huge hit on Kickstarter but this is our first chance to get 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 orange is actually a pretty nice color comes with 64 gigs of internal storage and you can expand that through microSD up to 128 km/h hours on a charge and store it pretty much any kind of file you have flax Apple Lossless WAV pretty much any kind of file you can throw it this thing and it will 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 they're 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 the 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 played a few tracks everything sounds very deep very robust so if you've got really nice headphones or or an app or any that 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