OK This is getting too strange.
I checked my wiring, traced it back to the connector on the cradle. The perm is permanently 12V, the switched does indeed switch.

I live in Irvine, so while I am happy to try my Empeg in your cradle, given that we've both got the same problem, I'm not sure what that would achieve.

I just reInstalled 2.0b3 and the pop has returned. Let me say that again for the nice gentleman who replied to my post in the programming column. I upgraded to 2.0b3 got speaker thump on shutdown. Downgraded to 1.0 Thump goes away. ReInstalled upgrade and thump has returned.

Start running.

I did consider briefly that I might have a cheap amp (or maybe one that required longer to shutdown) but the other symptom is that the empeg powers off completely, it won't go into standby (even with the timer value set at 20000) so there would seem to be something wrong at the Empeg end.

A thought
Has the download remained static? Is it possible that Tom and I have downloaded the same dud version.

I downloaded mine Wednesday, November 28th

Peter

Whoops, Irvine in Orange County, LA
I have a 2001 Dodge Ram. Its a RED one.