I had spent a bit of time trying to persuade Kenwood and Sony that adding mp3 CD functionality to their CD players would be a good idea, but came up against a lot of fear (about lawyers mainly) and had finally decided I was going to have to build a car-going PC for the purpose of playing music when I followed an obscure link to empeg.com. I got onto the waiting list as soon as I could and after a slight delay (I took the option of waiting for the Mk II) have never wanted anything else in my car.

I have been demoing it to many folks, many of whom have expressed an urge to visit ebay as soon as possible.

The only downside - I really gotta buy some bigger disks