I wholeheartedly agree with the 3 reviews I have read about this device now that I have my own experience with it. I cannot express how very excited and happy I am with this little player! It is such a tremendous blessing! I absolutely love it!!! The ability to hear with or without earbuds, (pillow speaker, headphones) is fantastic! I do both! The volume is very good and speaker clear! I just can't say enough good things about it! I, too, intend on purchasing more in different versions and perhaps some as gifts. I did contact the company through email because Amazon was showing that the Amplified version was not available and they didn't know when or if it would become available. I got an answer the very same day! They were already correcting the problem with Amazon! They have corresponded with me more than once and are a real pleasure to do business with. It is truly a wonderful ministry they are providing that blesses my soul richly to be able to feed more consistently on God's Holy Word through the vehicle of hearing! Rom.10:17 - "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." I am expecting great and wonderful things!UPDATE: As an addendum, I was asked to include part of a recent email communication I had with the man who has made these available here with my review in hopes it might benefit those considering purchasing/using these devices. That paragraph is as follows:"I truly appreciate your burden and work to make God's Word available through the avenue of hearing. I love the way you called what you were striving to achieve in your own life, the Psalm 1 lifestyle! I have loved Ps.1 for years and years and memorized it a long time ago! The way it says it in the Amplified (as I'm sure you are well aware) is: 'But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he HABITUALLY meditates (ponders and studies) BY DAY and BY NIGHT.' Oh, WOW! That just does something for me deep down in my heart and causes a stir and a thrill! I desire that kind of HABITUAL meditation of God's Word or, as you call it, a Psalm 1 Lifestyle! I rejoice with you in the healing that God brought to you in your own life through doing that. God has certainly used all you went through not only for your good, but for the many, like me! God bless you in this endeavor!"