I had heard a handful of sample mp3s from Amazon - which I basically used to help decide whether I wanted to buy the album - but had never collected mp3s until the empeg came along. Until then I had never even been a fan of CDs, as I far prefer the sound of vinyl through a good system.

Now I have 7000 tracks on my empeg, my home dock is hooked up through my stereo system in the living room, and via ethernet to all the workstations and servers in the house. (hmm thinks - The one thing I may need to do is set something up so they can all be synched)

And now, I accept the sound of an mp3 as fairly good for most purposes, and the handiness of all my music in the car is a winner!