> And buy more CD's to record on eventually you'll spend the money on CDR's

Uhmm.. for a price of 25c per CDR, I'd have to buy some 4000 disks to break even with Empeg! I think this point is a bit silly. Cost of CDR media is hardly a factor.

I stand corrected on my point about CD changer - I didn't realize the changer won't read the MP3 CDs. Even still 15 hours of music per disk isn't so bad. An inconvinience of swapping a CD on the go is a price I am willing to pay for nearly one thousand dollars.