Seems like if you are serious about IASCA, just buy a CD player.

Yep. That's what I've decided to do. I have a halfway decent CD player that came out of my car when I got the empeg, and I have room in my dash for both, so I will use the CD player to feed the aux in on the empeg.

Of course the downside is I am adding one more processor to the signal path with some inevitable signal degradation, and I end up using the DAC from the CD player instead of the empeg.

I guess I could do some fancy wiring with switches that would allow me to bypass the empeg completely and run the CD player directly to the amplifiers... Hmmm, I'll have to think about that one. Would need an 8PDT switch, lots of opportunity for noise to leak in. Maybe someone already makes a nice A/B switch that would handle four L/R audio channels? But then I lose the empeg's parametric equalizer. Probably better to keep the EQ and suffer the small amount of signal degradation caused by playing through both the CD player and the empeg before getting to the amps.

I'm open to ideas here.

tanstaafl.

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