Everything runs fine though without the empeg running.. I power loss i very minimal. Im having a bunch of problems with my empeg. One is the power problem. The other is getting my cd deck to think there is a changer or somethign on there so it will open up the aux in. and the last is that my empeg (ever since i got it) randomly reads that there is no drive found... i think its because of the cable but im not sure..