I found that on "Dark Side" and "Wish ...." that (using AC VBR @128 start rate) you can tune the gaps right down, but only to a certain point. After that you start losing music and the pop remains; the gap itself is due to the empeg regarding the tracks as seperate and needing time to start the new track. I noticed that it is still far better than WinAmp's equivalent, so I live with the slight pop it generates. I have stopped noticing.

Mike has said that contiguous track playback has not yet been implemented, so there's not much chance it will change until the more pressing stuff is out of the way.

Don't be impatient - surely half of the fun of the empeg experience is waiting for all those gentle little tweaks that turn up one at a time. If they all arrive in one slug, then there'd be nothing more to wait for, would there?