but if your amp(s) expect 4V from the empeg, you may wind up with a quiet signal if your CD isn't 4V as well

An excellent point. The CD player is putting out somewhere around 1.0--1.5V so the amp gains would be way out of whack.

Probably better to just run it through the empeg, and at least take advantage of the 20 band parametric EQ.

Thanks for pointing out such an obvious problem that I was too dense to see for myself!

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