I would recommend one of these options:
  • Toss the Bose (as Bruno suggests) and replace it with single-DIN unit with a single CD slot. Perhaps you will need here and there to listen to *one* CD (freshly bought etc), but you really won't need a changer. Either route empeg through HU, or use one of those Sony relays that will connect empeg to the amps when it is in the car, and CD-HU otherwise. You could even use Y-leads on CD-HU preamp-outs and thread them to empeg AUX in. That way you will be able to listen to CDs through empeg, and will still have something to listen to when you just hop to the grocer's and leave empeg at home.
  • Investigate those climate contols. I think that one BBS user modified his car (Corvette?) by ripping climate control board out, bundling its wires into a nice umbilical and installing it into armrest pocket. Empeg went to its place, of course.
Good luck and keep us posted.
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