This guy is yet ANOTHER case of a computer geek who, like most computer geeks, believe that just because they know computing hardware, that they automatically know about audio hardware. For other cases-in-point, read any recent review of computer speakers.

Its geeks like this (and some guys reading this) that are to blame for the industry being able to sell inferior speakers as "computer speakers" for far more than their worth for as long as they have. The same geeks who don't know why $250 USD for a set of Klipsch computer speakers is a STEAL.

You generally don't get many computer guys who have had nice cars growing up, and nice audio systems IN those cars. Now that they're finding their money-making niches in life, they're buying nice cars and making terrible assuptions about the hardware for THAT venue.

Its interesting that the reviewer bozo has an exception with installing an amp (like thats somehow specifically a problem with the empeg) -- well, Dear Bozo: anyone who can justify this expense is very likely to appreciate audio and thereby NOT just some geek or punk who expects to have great audio driven by his/her head unit.

And, finally, and completely unrelated to empeg, doesn't this trouble anyone:

> [the reviewer] started using Linux in September of
> 1996. He founded a site called Themes.org, and now
> works for VA Linux Systems as the site director of
> Linux.com

A guy who's only used LINUX for four years is the best they could do for the site director of linux.com?

Not to mention how l33t themes are.

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