Alright....here's the situation.

I've had my Rio MarkIIa installed in my car for close to 4 months now...and everything has been working perfectly up until about a month ago. The first thing I noticed that was a little strange was that occasionally when I would boot up the player it would boot up normally, start playing, but all I would hear would be loud pops and clicking noises. It did this numerous times over the last month, but would go away when I reinserted the player into the sled.

Now, about a week ago, on some music tracks, I am getting what sounds like some form of digital distortion when the music is playing...and it is very noticeable when the volume is relatively loud. When playing a different track from a totally different CD, it seemed to go away...

I know it isn't anything else in my car system....I have the Rio hooked into an Alpine head unit and CDs play back perfectly fine in there.

Any suggestions? Maybe there is something actually wrong with my beloved Rio?