Hey thanx jinx, been down the route of shure customer service and would like to say they were helpful, unfortunately this is not the case at my end. They did offer me upgrade to 535`s at a cost of another £270 + my old 530 set, therefore this would mean having over £500 in in-ears that i have not even tested. I find this absolutely ridiculous and very insulting, get behind your product Shure and grow some balls, its only because i have used the 530`s very lightly over 3 years that this problem has reared its ugly head yet again, wish i would have abused them, then they would have probably failed inside the warranty, i also got these of ebay, stupidly i know, but in reality Shure distributed these originaly, so to me it do`s not matter if they were purchased in timbuktu or utopia, Shure made them, but will quickly tell you that you dont have a leg to stand on. I always had the motto "you get what you pay for" but Shure sure has blown this out the water for me, very dissapointing, i am never going to buy a shure product again and they may not care as i am small fry to them. Friends of mine have been very impressed with the sound quality of the 530, so am i shall add, but ive talked at least three of them out of buying this product because of the experience ive had with Shure, unlucky shure, even though you got out of replacing my set, it has cost you more already in lost sales through your ignorance and poor effort to deal with said situation. I do still hope to find a company in UK to have the 530s recabled, as because i used them so little i think they are worth it. No problem with sound quality, big problem with the crappy cables that shure put on these, yet again its the hard working consumer who loses out yet again to a "blue chip company". Thanks for nothing Shure and i will be quite happy not doing business with you again in the future. Heres one sorry consumer.