I just read the ZDTV's review.

It provides very poor information about the empeg. There's nothing said about the audio quality (which is really great - depending of the ripped mp3's of course). They didn't mention the upgradeability of the software, the configurability, EQ features, the search functionality, etc etc.
Really a poor review. Not poor because the product is poor but because it seems as if they didn't spend much time on testing it.
As Rob said the price of the unit isn't a thing that has something to do with the quality of a unit. Maybe if they had some sections like

Audio Quality
User Interface
Display features
...
Price

then the subsection Price wouldn't get best values but the overall on this review is really poor and being a Mk2 owner an a reader of this BBS nearly all people here are really glad with their units and know what they have paid for (or what they are going to pay for). I haven't seen too much negative reviews of empeg owners here.

So here's my review about ZDTV:

ZDTV - very poor information, not worth reading: 1 star out of 5


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