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Sony and pioneer will have great difficulty in designing something as nice as the empeg as they are so used to building machines with 10 to 20 buttons with an interface that sucks big style. My girlfriends pioneer is horrible to use and that is only a single disc cd player.


Although I'm with you 110% (I've seen nothing yet that comes even close to the empeg UI) you seem to have missed the 24 buttons on the remote , but even without these 24 buttons the UI performs extremely well.
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