Yes, after changing "Mute" to "Pause" and removing my extmute_on/off settings, the empeg is working as expected. Actually ran back up to the apartment to grab my phone before driving to the gym so that I could test it out sooner vs. later.

I still can't believe I didn't realize the left box was a drop down!

The Parrot CK3000 is ground-on-mute, so the right drop down is set to 0 volts.

[And the Parrot CK3000 mute line is tied to both the empeg and the headunit in parallel, so it also mutes the output of the headunit as well. Now to figure out if there's some undocumented setting to get the *headunit* to pause CDs on mute, instead of just muting...]

From what you're saying about the telephone icon appearing *always* I'd say the empeg's mute sense line is tied directly to ground and not the speakerphone's mute signal *or* the speakerphone's mute assert line is broken...

-brendan