Hi

My Cowon S9 is dead and pending it not being repairable, what player should I replace it with?

Needs to be 32Gb at least, sound quality is most important factor (which is why I loved Cowon), nice screen but small size please, if it did H.264 that would be a bonus but very much secondary...

best sounding mp3 player I have come across has been the sandisk sansa. Its microSD card expandable so you can take it to 64GB if you want.

Have a look at the Cowon Z2 3.7" OLED Screen 32gb with a MicroSD Card Slot & it plays H.264 video

Sansa is nice but not in the same league as Cowon, IMHO.

I'll look at the Z2. More recent players seem to have had mixed reviews...

Ah... the z2 is NTFS and MTP so won't play nicely with a Mac.