I'm a chinese sony's fan and have to face the dilemma of buying the sony MZ-RH1 or waiting the X1000 series in these day. I currently own sony A800(Asia version), CD plyer NE20, but I want to pursue more better sound to satify my ear. I'm very interesting in SONY MZ-RH1 and addicted to its cool appearance so deeply, more than that, this is the only model of Sony'MD I can purchase in china. however, sony X1000 series to be released soon places me in a dilemma because it will apply some new sound technologies such as Hi-stereo,vpt,DESS,especially the S-MASTER and feature the best sound equating to CD.In china, the commend or evaluation about X1000 is so rare and almost no one get it, so I decide to look for hope in this forum. how do i make this choice? RH1 or X1000?I want to end up with really best sound in the end with CD quality. My music source is both on CD ,MP3 and Atrac3plus right now I need to know some thing as follow: 1. Between the Sony MZ-RH1 and the latest X1000 to be released which is the better unit sound wise and why? 2. How does the sound of a pair of sony earphone EX90SL & Sony MZ-RH1 MD compare to the Sony NWZ-X1000? 3, Can the sound of X1000 come up to NE20? or RH1? I crrently feel uncertain about X1000's so-called "S-Master" and pay more attention to its sonud quality? 4, How can I do for x1000(Asia version)to support the sony's atrac on SONICSTAGE 4.3 (chinese verion)? 5, How is the BASS of the RH1 with my EX90 and whose sound is more better between RH1 and X1000 when they both match EX90? I look forward to your best honest opinions, thank your very much for any help!! ---- A boy from china