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Re: They all suck
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Posted by Peter Jeffe [Email] (more from Peter Jeffe) on Sun, 11 Aug 2002 12:10:46 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: They all suck, Trevor, Sat, 10 Aug 2002 01:54:01
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All the reasons you list are the ones that caused me to go for the empeg/Rio Car instead of one of the other units. I just couldn't see settling for CD-changer-type controls, one level of playlist, and an 8-character display.

So I'm curious: are you including the empeg in your judgement? I don't think you could ask for a bigger display in a single-DIN unit. It has many different display modes that can present all the relevant data about the song being played (artist, title, album, year), position in the track, time played/left, number of tracks in the playlist and the current track number, as well as all kinds of eye candy if you're bored with watching the road. I would love to have song lyrics and album art, but I think the latter is a bit unrealistic and the former will take a little more hacking (I'm think of this for a future project).

Its navigation seems very easy to me--just a couple of pushes on its very accessible buttons to get to the desired playlist, album, or song, or to navigate the options menus.

I can't vouch for the empeg's "flawless playback" on the road yet, but it works great in the house, and since it has lots of shock absorbtion and uses laptop hard drives, I have to believe it will handle anything that normal on-road driving would throw at it.

Overall, I think it's head and shoulders above the rest, and I sure hope Sonic Blue revives it so that it can get the market it deserves (or at least force the big boys to get their act together).


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