Because a CDR with MP3s holds 10 regular CDs. I thought that was blatantly obvious.

And a 40 GB empeg holds more than 600 regular CDs. I thought that was blatantly obvious.

Rude sniping aside (my apologies, but I couldn't resist -- your post made such a tempting target) , there are intangibles at work here that until you have actually had use of an empeg will be difficult to understand.

The empeg changes both how you listen to your music, and what you listen to. Rather than reiterate these things, look at my post here and follow the link therein to Tony's post as well, and you'll start to understand why we're crazy enough to spend $1500+ on a music player.

I'll probably be banned from the bbs for saying this but for the majority of people, the empeg is not the best stereo system. It is expensive, it is complicated to operate, requires a lot of upkeep to keep it supplied with new music and requires external amplifiers and tuners to operate. Yet for the elite few who are really serious about music in their car, there is simply nothing else available with the capabilities of the empeg, and the fact that it is also a linux computer gives opportunity for as-yet-undreamt-of additional capabilities in the future.

tanstaafl.

ps: I am quite proud of the fact that our little empeg community did not rise to the "flame bait" implicit in this thread!




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