I have had the Central since around April 2002 and really think it's the best thing goin' to listen to your cd collection (as I'm sure you find with the empeg). I've got five rio receivers connected to it also and wouldn't trade this setup for anything.

What is it missing? Well for one thing I still can't sync up with my Rio Riot (but that should be fixed *soon*), you can't stream the same tune to all receivers at the same time, it needs a bigger hard drive (comes with a 40GB but that is easily upgradeable; I currently have a maxtor 120GB installed), when you select a genre of music to squirt to a portable say a RIO 800 you can't randomize the tunes before you squirt so you just get the tunes that are first in line in alphabetical order. Other than that it's awesome.

Jerz