Last night I had to turn off the car, but instead of turning the Empeg off (long press on top-button) before stopping the engine, I muted it (short press). On killing ignition, the Empeg prodiced it loud pop as usual, but remained silent thereafter. During playing the visuals moved OK and also the elapsed time indicator etc moved with the track OK, but no sound. Changing volume settings, or setting/removing mute did not help. I really believed the pop had killed some output stage.

For some reason, I left it on, just displaying the visuals. Suddenly, after about 5 minutes, it started playing again!

Did the Empeg get hurt, but managed to reset itself after some time, or is there may be some sort of protection circuit in my amplifier (Rockwell) that suspended output? Any danger that the pop will someday kill the Empeg or the amp?

Henno