Neil Young to expand digital audio service Pono into streaming

Singer announces plans to stream his high-fidelity music service for audiophiles – despite the PonoMusic store being out of action since summer

Never say Neil Young isn’t persistent. His Pono audiophile download service may not have captured the public imagination – launching, as it did, just as streaming became a huge force in music consumption – but that hasn’t stopped the veteran Canadian rocker from deciding to take another push at saving our ears from over-compressed music files.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Young revealed that he was planning towards redirecting Pono towards being a high-res streaming service. “We’re pushing towards getting a presence in phones,” he told the magazine – though, as Rolling Stone pointed out, iPhones are not currently equipped to reproduce the sound quality Young desires).

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