"well DUH" if you pop it out while playing, i'm not at all supprised if you get a pop.. when the empeg is going through powerup, it inits the audio DAC, that will cause a pop, but the empeg does not signal the amp to powerup until the rest of the unit is initiaized, that way you don't get a pop on powerup.. same with powerdown, as part of powerdown, it shuts off the amp signal, any good amp will auto-discharge, and stop accepting signal when it's told.. but if you yank the thing from the dash, the amp may not have enough time to kill the signal before it recives a jolt from the connector being removed.. (read my story in the installs section on my 2000 Jetta with monsoon amp, which has no amp control line)

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