I am really interested to know if any other kiwis here have exercised their passion for music and delved into the world of expensive headphones, expensive .flac music file recordings and expensive portable players? I've looked among the NZ HiFi sites that have a Forum but most seem to have nothing on the subject, HiFi being the playing of nothing better than vinyl records ... I note too Geekzone hasn't a section on the pass time specifically either.... Perhaps it all early days... I don't know.

So far I own a Pono, the Neil Young endorsed player and a few sets of what I class expensive headphones. Sadly world zone issues seem to be blocking releases of HiRes audio material something worse than DVD movies ever did... I simply cannot buy Pono albums released as 24bit/192k yet however that material that I do have truly is something when you listen on headphones.... I never realised how bad .mp3 was...

So Geekzone... Is this a place for such kit and its users (being as diehard HiFi followers cringe at the belief a digital form of music can ever be anywhere as good as the analog copy)....

Oh once you are hooked you keep buying other kit, so my last count 4 players, 4 headphones and 4solid days transfer my music collection to various 128GB microSD cards....