Well, no dimmer option in the settings menu when docked in my car... Was my Empeg manufactured in the Twilight Zone? Any Empeg folks have any idea what's going on here?

You wouldn't happen to own a Mark 1 player, would you? The dimmer settings only exist on the Mark 2. Or possibly, do you have a Mark 2 player, but loaded it with software intended for the Mark 1 player? (Although the latter shouldn't work as far as I know.) What version of the player software is it running? If it's not 1.0, head out to the Empeg site and download that version.

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Tony Fabris