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When a signal gets weak, I can tell it's happening before I lose the signal. It's not a question of a tradeoff between clean signal and silence.


Well, it's not so much silence as a 50% drop in volume. Thanks for your notes though - I thought it might be a wiring problem, too. Given what you've said, I take it that the empeg does no "static masking" at all?

Thanks for all your notes on diagnosing alternator whine. Someone needs to invent a little "alternator whine diagnostic box"!