Don't forget that your mom's going to need a CD burner, burning software, and someone to install it all for her and teach her to use it.

Hardware, software, and time considered, add $500.00 to the pricetags of devices like the Aiwa. Oh, don't forget the cost of CDRs (minimal, I know, but still tangible) and the fact that burners tend to be -very- temperamental.

So now it's roughly $800.00 vs. $1200.00. The benefits of the Empeg become more pronounced when you put it into this perspective...

-- Bleys

"If you would judge, understand." -- Seneca