The other thing is the digitized noise is still there. Even with the EMPEG on without the engine on or in my house, there is a digitized noise (you know, like an amplified mouse chewing on
something). It is there with the playback of MP3's and if I switch over to the radio (through the AUX). I think that there is something not filtering within my EMPEG or something. Because nobody
seems to complain about this noise. My roomate has an empeg, and he has question the sound too. Has anyone come accross this problem?

Actually, I know exactly what you are talking about, though I can't say that I can help with your problem at all. When I took my empeg out of the box, and hooked it up to my Cambridge speakers for my CPU, the little demo song that it played had the same problem. There was just this "background static" kind of noise, although it wasn't really static, it was exactly as you said it was... like little rodents playing around in the box while the music was going on. I could still hear the music, but just with this noise in the background.

Well, I nuked that file, upgraded to every version incrementally (finishing with 8a), then uploaded my own songs. I'm not sure if the sample song was just a bad encode, but my songs sounded perfect. Crystal clear. I even jacked the volume up on my stereo to near ear-explosion-levels, and still sounded fine.

Are you running the most recent version? That's all I can think of that I did at all to the software to get it to play the tracks clearly.. and this was before it was even hooked up to my Jeep. (Incindentally - I have no problems with interference in my Jeep... even this "nasty power-off pop" isn't really noticable.. of course I only have a piece of junk 50W amp that powers my piece of junk speakers. I suppose now that I dropped a grand on a stereo, I can justify dropping 500$ on some decent speakers... heh)

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