[SRGilbert]

Hey great thread! I seem to be the most veteran of you all. I've had my iMP-250 (Iriver2) since September 2001. Living in the states, I had to have it imported from Korea through MPwiz.com for the bargain price of $225 shipped.

It's worked flawlessly since day one, and has only gotten better though some really great FW updates. I always said that the only thing that make me put it away is if Iriver made a harddrive player. Needless to say, I now have an iHP-120, but there are things about the Iriver2 I miss. One cool "feature" of the CD players was the 10 disc position memory. This was great if you like extended long running programs (like radio shows, ect.) If you kept them on different discs, it would start where you left off. If you were halfway though an hour long program, you could switch to a music disc, and then switch back the the program where you left off. No way to do that with the iHP though.

As mp3/CD players go, I still think the iMP-250 is the best. The controls are perfectly laid out for use in a car, the LCD on the player is invaluable, LCD remote can be handy, and it just looks very cool!

Too bad Iriver discontinued these, apart from it's larger size (and smaller buffer) compared to recent models, in my opinion, it's still their most innovative unit.

What's not to love?