[mdsjack]

Speaking of a82x audio quality:

I'm not an audiophile at all, because of lack of "sound sensitivity" and time to practice this hobby, although I played acoustic guitar an drums for a short time and listen to a lot of music.

What I found is that with standard earphones it sounds just perfect. Then I've connected it to low-end logitech 2+1 speakers I use on my tv, and it felt like mids were kida cut out of the sound range, but slighly tweaking the eq did an excellent job for voice, and made the sound warmer, just perfect. Even on these cheap speakers with wooden subwoofer I found the basses were amazing: the bass and the drums sounded just like they were in front of me, you can feel every single hit or note. I haven't tried to connect the walkman to my hi-fi marantz system, (need to get a cable) so I can't tell how will sound. I'll need to make my own line out cable for that, too.