Why isn the empeg a CD-based player?
This one does come up quite often. It’s not the case that 90% of people want a CD based player – especially after they’ve heard our reasoning against that. Here goes with the standard response: We have no plans to integrate a CD player into our empeg Car product. We did consider this option, but decided against it for a number of reasons: some practical, some commercial, and some because of our own opinions. Starting with the practical ones: • There just isn’t enough room. When things like power supplies and a decent display on the unit are taken into account, there is very little space left for a huge CD-ROM drive. Even laptop drives would fill all of the space currently filled with the hard drives. • Durability. Most CD-ROMs nowadays are made to be cheap, not durable, due to the ever shortening cycles of PC development and higher CD speeds. When you throw in the things like wear on bearings from spinning a CD in a moving, vibrating vehicle it becomes apparent that you really need a c
