I think that Sony have admitted that it was a number of faulty batches that had buttons that cracked. Dont think its a huge problem.
I have just sent back an HD5 not for cracked buttons but simply because if you wanna use MP3 and NOT atrac then you CANNOT us the built in EQ presets!!!! how annoying is that.
I simply refuse to re-rip all 150 albums to atrac so I can use the EQ funtions!!!
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Ive heard a bit about the HD5 suffering from cracked buttons on the internet, and as im looking at purchasing a HD5 (in red) i would like to know if they all suffer from the crack problem, the problems ive seen seem to come from silver players (and one or two black ones) so does the red version suffer from this problem?? I hope not as i really really like this player! Thanks to all that reply
Andy

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