I ended up ordering a DX90 yesterday. I originally was interested in the AK100 but the impedance issue steered me to the X5 and DX90. I remember Jamato8 from his sage advice in the past and decide to take a chance on the Ibasso. I am pairing it with my JH13 and Roxanne iem. My sources up to this point has been recently Cowon S9, Sansa clip +, and BB Z10 using Neutron app. I'm a musician, bass player. I started out this adventure with Archos first mp3 player years ago.....scratch that, when I was about 7 years old and had what was called a "show n tell record player". It had a film strip that would advance as the record played. My parents had a restaurant, and we had a jukebox. I'm not sure how it worked, but after a certain period of time, the owners of the jukebox would replace the records and would give us the old records. Here I was a 7 year old with 100's of 45's for my enjoyment! I still remember the very first 45 I played, it was Paul Mccartney and Wings, side A was Jet and side B was mamunia. It might have been low fidelity, but that sparked an interest in music that lives on to this day.
(I guess all of us beta pigs in HK received it this afternoon). While I'm not a believer in gear burn in, I would share my impressions after more time with it.
