"We are a very large country .....even if they only occupy a small percentage of our population.

The empeg was developed, designed, is supported and was built (at least the early ones) in the UK, so I can see how that would sting.

The slight irony is that many of us owners who have had an empeg for over a year, had to pay import taxes to get them imported to the US from the UK. "


I thought what he wrote was funny, and there was nothing wrong with it.

As for the EMPEG being designed and built in the UK, that's great, I am glad someone besides me designed it. I researched the heck out of building a similar unit but realized it really was cost prohibitive. Who in the heck is gonna buy a compact and reliable MP3 player for over $600(my estimated cost at the time)? My answer was "very few"..

In the U.S. there was very tiny niche market for these players and it really was not worth my time. I alone could not have made as nearly a good a product as the EMPEG.

I don't know who at SonicBLue came up with the idea to buy the MEPEG, but when I heard about it I knew it would not succeed, I am just glad we Americans got to reap the rewards of its failure. I am also glad some of us are sending these to our fellow EMPEG wanabes in Europe too..

-John M