I just bought a D-NE20 from a member here but theres a problem...

And the problem is, the volume button just... doesn't work. Neither the volume control on the remote nor the player itself works. It is set at one level, a pretty good listen level actually. But the problem is, there will be times that I'd like to lower the volume and turn it up at times too...

So that's why I may get an amp. And I got a couple questions.

If I were to plug in my amp into my CD player, and I were to turn the amp completely down, minimum. Will I still hear the sound of the CD player's volume? Or will the amp totally cancel out the sound of the CD player's output?

I heard that an amp may not funtion very well with a DAP's volume very high. The volume it is stuck on, is not very high (like I said before, good listening level), but I'm not quite sure how loud 'very high' is.

I am thinking about the PA2v2 as the amp I want to get. Seems like a good starter amp around this board.

I'd like to thank you all in advanced.