portable speaker recommendations

[vampshag]

Know there has been a couple of threads like this over the last couple of years but times are chaging, i had my last set of creative travelsound speakers stolen, i had a set from about 2002 and regularily took them back to PC world around 11 months in as the connection always worked loose so had about 3 sets regularily replaced, they were perfect though. Can anyone recommend any other types of speaker portable run off batts and loud, these are 2 watts per channel and ideally would want something a bit louder but not distorted size isnt a huge problem, im a student though so value for money would be great

any suggestions anyone?

ps have an iriver so NO ipod suggestions lol