For what it's worth we always thought of empeg as a software company. Vastly more time has gone into the software than the hardware. It takes us just a few days to design a new hardware platform now (albeit so long as we can cut and paste bits and pieces from previous platforms).

Of course the car player software would not have been much good if the hardware hadn't been thought out, and vice versa. Now, though, we just write software and design the occassional reference platform.

Rob