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Haha yea I got my 400gb on Amazon Prime day for $135 bucks. Love it though!

Actually I just recommended to my co-worker to get the A45 if he didn't specifically want balanced. It has EVERYTHING else plus extra battery life because less thermal efficiency w/ the processing in ZX300. But yea the balanced sounds damn good but not like a must have if you have other balanced audio options. The ZX300 was my first delve into balanced portable audio so that was my main purchase point of it!

A rare bird of my feather....mine is iFi DSD micro black fed by Sony NW_ZX300 into Sennheiser HD6xx. I agree with your interpretation, however, I do tend to collect FLAC 16bit as my baseline bc I feel the rips to a proper FLAC are made by encoders that are competent and passionate for quality sound.