it takes about 5 seconds to change to the next song.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Kreeler, the empeg has some very agressive caching and indexing code, making all track operations essentially instantaneous. Most of the other competing products will have pauses between track switches, or will take a long time to index the songs on the disk/disc.

From the time that you apply power to the empeg to the time that it begins playing is about ten seconds. Once it's playing, you can do just about anything instantaneously.

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Tony Fabris