I remember that many years ago (like about 13 or 14) there was a problem subsequently addressed in firmware that on occasion caused the empeg to start playing at maximum volume upon startup.

My wife is currently in Alaska, and this has happened to her twice now to the point where she is afraid to use the empeg.

The only thing I can think of is that until yesterday she had a problem where she could not disable the car alarm (she left the alarm remote keyfob here in Mexico) so she had someone clip one of the wires to the siren. The car would work, but the emergency flashers kept flashing, 24 hours a day. Could this have somehow triggered the maximum volume behavior?

Yesterday she got a local stereo shop to completely disable the whole alarm system, and hopefully there will be no recurrence.

tanstaafl.