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#362196 - 13/07/2014 12:34 Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle?
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
Here we are, about a decade and a half on, and the Big Question is:

Who (still) has a player (Empeg/RioCar) installed in one or more vehicles?

Empeg installed in vehicle?
Only one choice allowed


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#362197 - 13/07/2014 14:28 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
I did have one installed in my previous Subaru Impreza. In my current Impreza I've installed a cheap JVC headunit and am relying on Bluetooth from my iPhone to provide music.

I do in theory have an easy install to add an empeg, there is a spare slot under the JVC headunit that has a cubbyhole at the moment. Hopefully one day I get round to installing it. I do have the amp I used for the install in my previous Impreza, though I imagine this time I'd probably just use the aux in on the JVC.

I'll not be bother to try and install one in the Passat, far too much of a hassle.
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#362198 - 13/07/2014 15:17 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
Happy Birthday larry818
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Registered: 01/10/2002
Posts: 1033
Loc: Fullerton, Calif.
I'm down to one Mk1 languishing in a drawer. I probably won't install it anywhere.

The gal that bought my 240 is using the empeg in it tho.

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#362200 - 13/07/2014 17:04 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
julf
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Registered: 01/10/2001
Posts: 1307
Loc: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
One in the Morgan, one in the Bristol, one Mk 1 in an old military radio bag for the Pikie, and one in a 19" rack for the electronic warfare truck. Oh, and a bunch of Rio Receivers still in daily use (but emulating squeezeplayers).

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#362201 - 13/07/2014 17:51 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
Magnus
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Registered: 15/05/2002
Posts: 16
Loc: Tampa, Florida
Still running in my '67 Mustang. Only now the VFD display looks primitive compared to modern screens so it looks like it could have come in the car.
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#362202 - 13/07/2014 18:52 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
tanstaafl.
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Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 5539
Loc: Ajijic, Mexico
Well, I don't know if this really qualifies as an "installation" or not... I had a metal box made up with a "foot" on the bottom bent at about a 30-degree angle so I could bolt it to the storage cubby of my center console. (Cost me $12). There is an auxiliary input jack located about four inches away to connect iPhones, ipods, empegs, etc. I salvaged a power cord from a dead router power supply, tied it in to the cigarette lighter circuit and ran it under the carpet to the empeg. Nothing fancy, but it works.

tanstaafl.


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#362203 - 13/07/2014 23:40 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
Phoenix42
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Registered: 21/03/2002
Posts: 1424
Loc: MA but Irish born
Never looked into adding it to the Mazda3. Currently my empeg is out on loan, it had gathered dust for two long and deserved to be used.

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#362204 - 14/07/2014 02:31 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
StigOE
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Registered: 27/10/2002
Posts: 568
I still have one RioCar installed in my Passat. It started to have the "No hard disk found" last winter (I think it was), so I touched up the IDE connector and installed an SSD.

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#362206 - 14/07/2014 09:02 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: tanstaafl.]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
I like Doug's centre console installation -- definitely counts as an "install", one that might be easily done in other vehicles with "difficult" dashboard assemblies. smile

Here, we have several empegs, one of which is now buried deep inside the dash of the 2013 Impreza, using a 32GB CF card (instead of a mechanical hard disk) at present. There's a 64GB IDE SSD sitting on the worktable here to replace that at some point.

The rest of the players are in Home Docks around the house.

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#362207 - 14/07/2014 09:43 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
BartDG
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/05/2001
Posts: 2616
Loc: Bruges, Belgium
Since I got rid of my Alfa 2 years ago, I haven't used my Empeg in the car anymore. I can't install it into my Renault Clio or Opel Zafira without going though a lot of hassle, so I didn't try. I had good hopes for Jon's RPi Empeg project since that would make the install much smaller and therefore hopefully easier to do, but it seems that project just stopped. (I think?) Using the display extender we all know might be an option, but I don't really want to pull my entire dash apart in order to install it. So for now I'm using my iPhone via it's Bluetooth connection in order to stream A2DP audio to the headunit of my cars. Works pretty good, but nowhere near the Empeg experience.
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#362210 - 14/07/2014 16:03 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
jmwking
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Registered: 27/02/2003
Posts: 768
Loc: Washington, DC metro
Mine lives in my Dock on my stereo. (Do people still have stereos?)

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#362212 - 14/07/2014 17:36 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: jmwking]
tfabris
carpal tunnel

Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
I do I do! smile

I have two docks. One that I made myself, and one of Mark Lord's awesome docks.

I still have my 'peg in my car, and also I can dock it in two places in my house. smile
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#362213 - 14/07/2014 17:38 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: BartDG]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
Originally Posted By: Archeon
I can't install it into my Renault Clio or Opel Zafira without going though a lot of hassle, so I didn't try.


I still own a remote display kit which I haven't opened yet, just because I am fearing that this will come to pass for me too, when I need to get a new car which will make the install difficult.

Not a Renault or an Opel though. smile
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#362214 - 14/07/2014 18:00 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: tfabris]
mtempsch
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Registered: 02/06/2000
Posts: 1996
Loc: Gothenburg, Sweden
Originally Posted By: tfabris
I still own a remote display kit which I haven't opened yet, just because I am fearing that this will come to pass for me too, when I need to get a new car which will make the install difficult.

Not a Renault or an Opel though. smile


Ditto, in preparedness, as whatever might replace the 206 RC might not have an easy DIN slot. But for now one of the empegs still gets exercised daily.
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#362223 - 16/07/2014 01:43 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
Ross Wellington
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Registered: 21/02/2006
Posts: 325
Lots of them with dual 250GB drives in cars and around the house.

Still a good product, nothing out there yet to replace it.

Ross
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#362310 - 03/08/2014 15:16 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
haffi
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Registered: 04/06/2002
Posts: 19
Loc: Iceland
I have two one thats in house ,and other thats in my Toyota , Land Cruiser 90, 2003, Whis there was a way to upgrade it ! smile
You know faster Ethernet mostly.
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#362360 - 10/08/2014 21:15 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
hodge555
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Registered: 15/03/2010
Posts: 20
Loc: UK
I still have mine in my Impreza, but then I have had the car from new since 1998. I expect it won't be going in the replacement car though, whenever that happens.
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#362376 - 12/08/2014 00:11 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
Calmor
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Registered: 11/04/2002
Posts: 8
Loc: North of Pittsburgh, PA
Still have mine in a 1997 Mustang Cobra. A Bluetooth capable Pioneer feeds radio and Pandora from an Android phone.. But the player gets some use too. Bit of alternator whine that I never worked out, the knob doesn't register correctly, the DC ignition sense diode is dead, and I occasionally get the HD not found error, but it generally works well and still provides plenty of entertainment on long trips. Probably hasn't been sync'd in 8 or more years. MkIIa, used to have two docks but now just the one. Remote, power cord. Still remember it arriving many years ago!

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#362567 - 15/09/2014 13:39 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
Captain_Chaos
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Registered: 18/11/2000
Posts: 126
Loc: Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Yup, still have mine installed in the Renault Megane CC I bought in 2004 and am still driving. smile

It's still in perfect working order, original harddisks and all. The display has become quite faint though and is impossible to read in anything but darkness.

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#362581 - 17/09/2014 11:19 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
julf
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Registered: 01/10/2001
Posts: 1307
Loc: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Just sort of inherited (friend moved back to Australia) a 2001 Alfa 156 station wagon, so looking at yet another install...

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#362703 - 11/10/2014 23:08 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
gmarsh
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Registered: 29/04/2005
Posts: 18
Loc: NS, Canada
Still running mine in my '03 GTI:

http://i.imgur.com/01kka1p.jpg

Guitar pick is there to stop the handle from rattling smile

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#362723 - 16/10/2014 09:46 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
keil
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Registered: 28/12/2001
Posts: 23
Loc: Los Angeles,CA
Two still installed:
1) 95 Ford E350 turbodiesel 4x4, mk2 and van has 278,000 miles and 13+ yrs.
2) 1954 Willys CJ3B jeep, really glad empegs are removable, it gets parked on the street in LA and empeg would be gone years ago.
3) last empeg, spare, in original box, never opened.

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#362964 - 17/11/2014 15:33 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
Snowshoe
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Registered: 04/04/2004
Posts: 16
Loc: Midwest
I have currently 2 (1) MkII & (1) MkIIa, I swap them back and forth in same vehicle.
Like as been said many times before haven't found anything close to replacing it.


Edited by Snowshoe (17/11/2014 15:35)

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#363324 - 20/01/2015 13:50 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
frog51
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Registered: 09/08/2000
Posts: 2091
Loc: Edinburgh, Scotland
I currently have 2.5 empegs (my elder brother and I share a backup unit, so he has 1.5) with one in my Forester, and one that has been removed from my wife's Impreza - has yet to be installed in something else, and 2 docks - one in my home office and one downstairs.
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#363329 - 20/01/2015 22:59 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
jmwking
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Registered: 27/02/2003
Posts: 768
Loc: Washington, DC metro
Docks count? Boom! I have one in my Lordly Dock... (And my kids thank you! They get first choice of music. For now, anyway...)

-jk

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#363739 - 27/03/2015 00:36 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
clsmith
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Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 183
Had mine in my 08 Honda Ridgeline, till I got T-Boned at an intersection last November.

As soon as the weather gets warmer it's going into my 12 Ridgeline!
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#363767 - 31/03/2015 20:52 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
seang
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Registered: 14/05/2000
Posts: 28
Still have my empeg installed in the original car I bought it for - a 1997 BMW M3. It's mated with a McIntosh MC4000M amplifier and Polk speakers all around.
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#363882 - 22/04/2015 01:06 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
n6mod
enthusiast

Registered: 27/09/1999
Posts: 200
Loc: Berkeley, CA
Well, I got another M Coupe, so it only seems right to put the empeg back in. Currently hacking about with a 500GB SSD upgrade, with mixed luck.
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#363884 - 22/04/2015 10:09 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
500GB is more than pushing the RAM limits on the empeg. Oddly though, I expect it might work better if partitioned into a couple of more-or-less half size content partitions. Doing so would also require hand-tweaking the /dev/ entries to make the second partition appear to be on a second drive.

There have been several people using dual 250GB drives here in the past.

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#363891 - 23/04/2015 04:54 Re: Who has an Empeg/RioCar installed in a vehicle? [Re: mlord]
n6mod
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Registered: 27/09/1999
Posts: 200
Loc: Berkeley, CA
Originally Posted By: mlord
500GB is more than pushing the RAM limits on the empeg. Oddly though, I expect it might work better if partitioned into a couple of more-or-less half size content partitions.


That's... interesting.

Just due to memory requirements for an fsck, or is there more to it?

[and as I posted in the other thread, the issue I'm having at the moment is with ethernet initializing]
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