Re: OT: In Car MP3

[geraint@xxxxxxx]

By messing about,,,,i refer to not getting the product t  the market=20
as promised.
I was on the original purchase list and desperately wanted one....but=20
they kept delaying and delaying.

The main problem was that empeg was a startup company, and now being=20
owned by Rio can only help, but i do beleive they missed the market=20
oppurtunity, and many people have started building in pc's int  the=20
car with options like streetmate etc....and for a lot less.

don't get me wrong,,,empeg is fantastic, and i would love t  have=20
bought one,,,,but it suffered from the lack of backwards=20
compatibility...i.e "normal" cd etc,,,,

I do beleive that within a couple of years, this will be the way=20
forward by all the other manufacturers,,such as Alpine, Sony, Clarion=20
etc,,,and that combined with tft screens and sat nav is an awesome=20
prospect.....

But don't forget the key thing is....does the empeg cost sub =A3250 ?

I rest my case me lord....

and i am only joking there,,,,its different strokes and all that...
you'd think as i run 5 ddar's around the house the empeg would be=20
more suited,,,,but not quite yet.

regards
geraint.

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Mark Kaye" <mark@m...> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: geraint@a...=20=20
> >=20
> > I wanted an empeg, but they keep messing about and i believe
are=20
now=20
> > owned by Rio....still a good system, but quite an expensive=20
> > investment, whereas the Kenwood allows the MP3's, but works
just=20
as=20
> > well as a CD Head Unit, plus changer control.
>=20
> What do you mean by empeg 'messing about'?  I have an empeg and=20
it's the
> best purchase I have ever made - bar none.  Their customer service=20
is
> absolutely fantastic.  I couldn't fault them.  The purchase by Rio=20
has
> made no difference t  the company at all, except they now have far
> greater resources to d  things they have been wanting t  d  for the
> product from the beginning.
>=20
> Things like Speech recognition on the player are in the works, GPS
> integration for sat nav, etc, etc. Lot's of very exciting things=20
coming
> from them in the near future.  The big thing about the empeg is the
> software.  Until you have played with one you will never really
> appreciate what a difference it makes to your listening habits (for=20
the
> better).  It's almost impossible to explain as it's a completely
> different way of looking at things when you're used t  CD's, MD's,
> tapes, etc.  Simple things like choosing a playlist of songs from=20
the
> year 1976 (2 clicks on the remote).  Listening to songs that you=20
haven't
> listened t  in a while!  Organising playlists in whatever way you=20
like.
> Appending to playlists whilst in the middle of one, using any search
> criteria for the append (year, genre, title, source), etc.  Amazing
> stuff...
>=20
> Anyway, enough evangelising for now ;)
>=20
> M
>=20
> P.S.  Did I mention the visuals and fully parametric EQ (try=20
finding one
> of those on a std head unit).