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I bought my im7 last year about this time, and have been extremely pleased with its sound quality. Unfortunately, after about 6 months of very light use (all indoors), the carriage into which the ipod fits became difficult to open and close, and after a year it would no longer close at all. I have been very pleased with A-L's customer service, who informed me that they have had repeated problems of this sort and were pullling the im7 off the market because of it. They offered to replace it with an im9 or other product, and I am in the process of mailing the im7 back to them. Bottom line, given the reviews that the new im9 is getting, you are probably better served going with it over the im7.