I'd read about the cables extending out of the back of he Empeg's car mount, but I'd never exepected it to be so bad.

You're right about that. The Empeg is deeper than most aftermarket stereos to begin with, and then you have all that extra cabling in the back to contend with.

My solution was to actually perform surgery on the docking sleeve. Since I did not use the Aux input or the serial connector, I carefully de-soldered those items from the connector and saved them in the Empeg box (along with some documentation on the pinouts). This gave me the extra room I needed. I don't recommend it to everyone, though, since you can easily ruin the unit if you don't know what you're doing. The antenna wire is especially fragile, and can break if you just look at it sideways. Of course, antenna wires are always fragile, at least they have been on every other car stereo I've seen.

Tony Fabris
Empeg #144