Merry Christmas everyone! Finally got my new Sony E5858 to replace my Cowons S9 (with the on/off switch I had to repair).  Music sounds GREAT... went to put my Audible audio books on there & ... nothing.  Turns out Sony have some sort of issue with Audible & so their Walkman's aren't...

I could do.  To be honest, these are by far THE best IEM's I've ever owned (and by the standards of this board, they're probably TERRIBLE) What would you suggest?  If you can point me to something relatively inexpensive on the amazon.co.uk site so far as Player & IEM, I'd be eternally...

  Exactly - not really sure what I want.  I'd like some long battery life though, if I can get it & that's what put me off the Fiio X3 which is rated at around 10 hours.   I listen to mainly podcasts & hiphop music (which, I suppose, is bass heavy).   So my options look like..   Fiio X3...

OK, so my Cowon S9 power button has broken.  Again.  This time, the only company in the UK with an agreement with Cowon say they can't supply the button on it's own (like they did last year) and I'm not paying £50 for them to do a 2 minute job with a £10 button, so it's NEW RIG TIME. Really...