I'm can't believe i'm saying this... but i will. I was discussing this with a friend back home that wants an empeg but can't afford one, so is looking at the neo35. I tried for an hour to compare them until i realized you can't... they are, like Rob says, targeting a different market. They are after kids and geeks who just want an MP3 player that plays their music without much regard to sound quality or overall quality for that matter. The price point is so much lower, it's damn near impossible to not be able to justify buying one if all you want is a large capacity mp3 player and aren't an audiophile. Believe me, i tried forever to layout every benefit the empeg has, and after owning one for 3 months, i can verify it's quality and strengths. The one thing that is hard to explain that the empeg holds over every other product is it's support and the continued commitment of it's makers to make the best frickin' peice of hardware they possibly can and not cut corners. My buddy said flat out, that if the empeg dropped to $600 to $700, he knows he'd buy one cause he knows they are worth that much over the $300 neo. Hopefully the S3 situation will help out soon and the pricepoint will drop, and more people will be able to see the light that is empeg.

So for now i'm stuck feeling just like i did when i was defending the high cost of Apple's machines way back when... evangelism lives =]


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