I too wish the old layout would come back. I find this new layout to be sluggish and hard to navigate.

why not buy the Sennheiser IE8's? It might be out of your spending range but these guys sell them for £189 Link to Advanced MP3

I wonder if it is possible for an 'authorised dealer' to stock fake IE8's? I'm not sure how exactly the authorised dealers are supplied so I'm wondering whether their suppliers have to be acknoweldged by Sennheiser themselves as a genuine supplier or if these authorized shop dealers just go...

I'm from Australia too and I've been looking for one of these myself... getting it from America would be a good idea because of the exchange rate at the moment. I'll go and have a look myself. I'm sure you could get one off an amazon dealer fairly easily. Amazon.com: Used and New: SanDisk(R)...

hmm well actually according to the caption in this link: Sennheiser IE 8 (non-functioning prototype) on Flickr - Photo Sharing! the one's with the silver were probably a "non-functioning prototype." perhaps this is what the official ones were going to look like, but they decided to make...

Also, does anyone know why in some pictures of the IE8 that you see online, the cable looks thicker, is not transparent looking, and the bass tuning knob is silver? Because in other pictures it seems the cables are kind of thinner and the tuning knob is black. here is what I'm talking...

Quote: Originally Posted by MacedonianHero Sorry, I don't know. I was just a little concerned when you mentioned the lack of bass, because mine (picked up from Headroom) have more bass (and better base) than all of my full sized headphones (save my Denon D7000s). Is that only...

well, from what I've been reading on the internet about sennheiser IE7 fakes, there is no real way to guarantee that your product is genuine unless you buy from an authorized dealer and have paid a reasonable price for it. apparently the people who make fakes produce their own stickers as...

I found an authorised dealer (linked to from sennheiser uk's list of authorised dealers) in the UK that ships globally: Welcome to AskDirect - HD Ready LCD & Plasma TVs, Notebook Computers, Digital Cameras they sell the IE8 for 170 pounds they'll give you a quote on shipping to your...