Yikes... The guy at Sony mailed me yesterday telling me the same thing I know already, that "in european countries, all mp3-players has a volume limit to protect our ears bla bla bla..." Hello? Couldn't he at least stop playing dumb and tell me, "sorry, I'm not allowed to tell you that" or something. I'm very satisfied with my NW-S205F in every other ways, so it's quite annoying that the volume is so low...