Ho Man! Thank you very much!. That really did the trick on my NW HD3( bought in BKK)...there is a very loud party in my head right now...the B52's are dancing all over. (and yes the backlight went off) I always thought the machine lacked in punch..without counting that the equalizer don't work on mp3 files... Right, now I gotta find a way to get rid off the rest of my distroyed SonicStage 2.3 updated to 3.2 to 3.3... then I've never been able to get in my walkman again... then find out how to get RealPlayer 10.5 to reconize my NWHD3...so far no luck... Maybe a good search on the forum will do the trick. Thanks again for Liberating US from the Evil Sound Limitors..and maybe from the infamous Sonic Stage