My friend bought a Pioneer MP3 CD player with the OEL display (after seeing my nice shiny new empeg! - to give him credit he did try and get an empeg). The display is quite nice - a lot smaller than the empeg display, but hence appears crisper due to the same resolution. Graphics are very nice and smooth, but it's so boring just to have an animation looping with no attempt to make it be affected by the music.

Other than that, it's an adequate unit - allows you to change front and rear eq settings individually (where have we seen *that* before?), and actually generates an EQ curve as you alter the parameters, which is something I'd love to see on the empeg.

But considering it RRPs over here for £600 (and even though he only paid £450), it seems vastly overpriced IMO - my JVC SH99RB MP3 CD player does almost everything his does (without the fancy display), and sounds to me to have a better inbuilt amp (although it's hard to tell as we have completely different cars/speakers), and only cost me £260.

And my empeg only cost £400, but that's hardly relevant as it's worth a hell of a lot more to me

Cheers,

A.