.I'm desparate for Empeg+Radio and it sounds like a LONG wait for tuners, if at all.

If you are content to deal with a slightly inconvenient and somewhat low-quality sound on a temporary basis while waiting for the new tuners to be produced, there may be an easier way to do it.

Just get any kind of portable radio that has line-outs (even a walkman-style radio's headphone jack will have enough power, I think) and connect it to the Aux-In on the empeg player.

This is what I did with my car (before there were any tuners available) and after testing it to see that it worked, never used it (not even once!) because with a dash full of mp3s, who needs radio!

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