First peek - Aiwa hasn't uploaded a news release yet: http://www.jij.co.jp/product/01-03-07/aiwa010307.html Tentative launch March 21, MSRP 34000 yen. The AM-HX200 has an all-titanium body. Titanium supposedly has double the surface strength of aluminium, which means the unit would be harder to scratch, etc. Aiwa's hallmark function of selecting track during playback is updated. On the HX200, if you view the track list during playback, the tracks will be arranged in the order of Japanese phonetic characters (a, ka, sa, ta, na, ha ma, ya, ra, wa, IIRC). The HX200 also has a sentence repeat function: Using any 0.5-second silence as an identifier, it will repeat the "sentence" 9 times. Good news: The HX200's headphone amp has 16mW output (not known if it's 8+8 or 16+16). "Digital tone processor" allows for bass/treble adjustment (-6 to +6). There's also the usual MDLP support, alarm function, program play, power save, as on previous Aiwa players. Leon ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
