BIGHMW
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It seems like there is more of a significant volume boost with CD remasters than with older 1990 masters, that being used with my Sony NW-HD5 (rated at 5 mW)and MDR-NC60 cans (40-ohms), maybe I will get much louder output with a non-Sony DAP. However I don't want to become (what we at http://forums.minidisc.org call) an "iSheep" and get one of those dreaded products from Apple or Zune (I hear both are pretty damn good), but I am just afraid to go buy one because all non-Sony and post-2007 Sony units do not support ATRAC/3/3plus (I have been using Sony ATRAC products since first getting into MiniDisc in 1998) nor will they work with SonicStage, in which I have been using since getting my first Hi-MD unit (MZ-NH700) back in 2004.
Don't forget I am pretty much still a naive rookie in the Head-Fi world (I am learning through this forum) as opposed to you hardened veterans of the field, and although I got an NW-HD5 at your recommendations (I own about 4of them, all silver in various conditions, and all work well, I use one at a time) as well as a Headsix, a Boostaroo Revolution, and the FiiO E3, in which this thread is about, but is it worth getting (I am dreading this as I am writing this) one of "those proverbial Apple players" as opposed to my HD5 after spending hundreds of $$$ stocking up on MD/Hi-MD/HDD players and all the accessories (remotes, cans, IEM's, cases, etc.) for them, or should I stick to my guns and go with my Sony arsenal?
Don't forget I am pretty much still a naive rookie in the Head-Fi world (I am learning through this forum) as opposed to you hardened veterans of the field, and although I got an NW-HD5 at your recommendations (I own about 4of them, all silver in various conditions, and all work well, I use one at a time) as well as a Headsix, a Boostaroo Revolution, and the FiiO E3, in which this thread is about, but is it worth getting (I am dreading this as I am writing this) one of "those proverbial Apple players" as opposed to my HD5 after spending hundreds of $$$ stocking up on MD/Hi-MD/HDD players and all the accessories (remotes, cans, IEM's, cases, etc.) for them, or should I stick to my guns and go with my Sony arsenal?