"Downside is their looks, and annoying flashing LED", I forgot about that, the Jabbra has the same, you have to press & hold both left and right buttons to turn off the lights, each time you turn them on.

"whats the inconvenience of a cable running thru your shirt?", and then back out, into my pants pocket, tried it, hated it.

"but as an audiophile its just not up to spec", pardon? You must have quite a phone or media player to store and play high definition tracks (192 kHz/24-bit uncompressed). Usually players are MP3 with the fidelity of someone from Essex