Part of the beauty of the empeg hardware is how well it's thought out and designed with high quality components compleety aimed at being a car stereo. But, the best part of the empeg is not the hardware as much as the player software that makes everything work.

Putting a computer in your trunk is possible, and even getting a display board and four buttons and a knob is possible but sonic blue isn't goign to sell you the source code to the player as it still has plenty of life left in it. Reimplementing the player software is an interesting idea, and no one has come close to doing it either closed or open source.

Matthew