Empeg Car Player

Pros: Revolutionary, wonderful features, holds hundreds of hours of music!
Cons: PRICE!!! Only one generation past the "project" stage

That's right folks, this little bad boy is a true car-stereo revolution waiting to happen, but it won't happen today. At $1200, even the (relatively) tiny 6 Gigabyte version is too far out of reach for 98% of the consumers. You don't have to have a PhD...

Pros: Great Sound, Huge music storage capacity , Cutting-edge features, Upgradeable
Cons: Very Very Expensive, Short boot-up delay time

The Empeg is now owned by Rio. This player which was owned by Empeg was called the Mark II and is now known as Rio Car. It is one of the most, if not the most, high tech, and cutting-edge in-dash car stereos available today.

Pricing...

Pros: Closeout prices make unit worth the money. Tons of features! Coolest toy I have!
Cons: No built in radio or amp. Unit EOL'd so support might suffer.

I originally looked into getting one of these Empeg units back in late '98 when they were first introduced. I was actually on the "waiting list" to receive one months before it was released. At the time the units had a 6GB hard drive and were selling...

Pros: tons of hard drive space, plays mp3s, runs linux
Cons: unreliable, overheats, generic remote control

I'm pretty disappointed with the EMPEG player. When I first heard about them, I just *had* to have one. They seemed like the coolest thing since sliced bread.

Now, I wish I'd never spent the money.

The EMPEG player has been...

Pros: You name it, it's got it.
Cons: No longer being produced :(

This is the best thing I've ever done for myself. Three thousand songs underneath that play button, and it's barely a quarter full! There is nothing that I don't like about this player. I don't regret not having a CD player in my car even for an...

Pros: Best interface for car MP3! Support continues for the device.
Cons: Getting harder to find as it is discontinued.

If you have a decent MP3 collection this is the absolute perfect MP3 player for your car.

Key is the dropdown playlist interface, although in general having to navigate 10,000 songs will always get a little harry - this is the best interface...