I just got back to Vancouver from my first ever trip to Japan to visit my Japanese Girlfriend I met here. Before going I did lots of research on MD micro systems, since I wanted to buy a new one as a souvenir. I settled on the Onkyo XB-8 since it was the only one I could find with a world band tuner, and it had all the features I wanted like 4 timers, optical in/out, subwoofer out and HI-MD to boot. I walked into the Yodobashi Camera in Sapporo, and browsed their large selection, but tragically