During a couple of our below-freezing days here in Philly I noticed that my empeg would appeared to freeze during playback. I was able to switch and listen to the radio, but not MP3 playback. This makes total sense since the operating temperature for the radio is lower than that of MP3s. I just wasn't sure if this was one of those buggy lockups that I had experience before.

But according to Tanstaafl, the empeg has temperature monitoring circuitry that will prevent the hard drives from spinning up if these temperature limits are exceeded. Since the empeg controls when the hard drives can be spun up, why not display a message that the current temperature is not within the acceptable operating temperature range?

Craig Elliott
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