This is great! Thanks for sharing.
I will definitely back this project. Not so much for the player, but for the musicians that are doing this to improve the quality of music reproduction. I hate the loudness of many albums these days, the compressed dynamics, clipping and other carp. Or the new super duper remastered release of an old classic that just sounds terrible. I really hope real music is back!
One problem might be that I have to buy all my albums once again.. But if Pono delivers the music quality I'm after, I'm OK with that.
Then I must say that it's too bad that every time a music product topic starts here at EEVblog there is always talks about Audiophoolery or whatever. I wonder if any of these people ever have tried listen to real audio gear? Tried to do some blind A/B tests? It is not that hard, and can be quite fascinating. Yes, I consider myself an audiophile. I can hear the difference between different power cords any day of the week, blind test, random or whatever. Piece of cake. But to be able to do that, you have to train, know what you want to get out of the music.