Finally, leaving car customers in the dust.. erm, how do you conclude that? Lots of EOL notice was given, existing customers had plenty of time to buy the accessories they needed, software development continues, and support continues. We're working on getting another batch of tuners, and lots of 3rd parties have offered to get involved with that if SONICblue do not.

I couldn't agree more. I'm one of those who kept waiting for the Empeg to fall in price and happily picked one up when they were given away for free. I did it fairly confident that there would be good support for it; if nothing else then from the community. And failing that I knew that the community is large and could pick up for most problems.

Now my biggest worry is that I am getting addicted and not being able to just order a new one I don't know what I would do if my new empeg some day gets stolen (knock on wood). :-)