unless there is something i don't know, the rio remote is basically a rebranded kenwood remote. before empeg was bought, all players shipped with the standard kenwood remote. wnen rio bought them, they used the same remotes, just put their name on them. someone correct me if i am wrong though.

I'm correcting you.

The Rio remote may be the same size and shape as the Kenwood remote, but it uses a completely different set of IR codes and has been completely re-written to exclusively control the Empeg Car player.

The Rio remote has a much better button layout, and the functions are all correctly and logically labeled.

In fact, from the tone of the original post in this thread, I would guess he somehow got a Kenwood remote instead of a Rio remote. His complaints sounded like the kind of complaints you would expect to hear about the Kenwood one.

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Tony Fabris