Sorry guys, probably a badly worded question. I certainly didn't mean it to be a 'vs.' post either. I suppose what I meant was that as the MZ-RH1 seems to be sold as a low volume 'professional' product then are the components of a better quality than a high volume seller such as Sony's HD offerings? Shoot, it still sounds like a 'vs.' but do you see what I'm getting at? Sound reproduction on my HD seems OK but not much more. I'm digging a hole here, I'll stop Specifically @ stuge, TBH being able to carry around hundreds of tunes certainly isn't a priority. I don't think I've ever gone more than about 5 gig on my HD3 and then usually I end up removing the lot and putting something else entirely different on. Sort of defeats the object I know but hey... And as far as tweaking settings, well yes I do but I always like to think the test is what it sounds like straight out of the box. Again, sorry for the confusion and (seriously) thanks for the welcome