I was reading this thread and I noticed I forgot to add my update. I soldered a thin wire to the outside (shield) of each of the AUX RCA connectors twisted them together and grounded them to the frame that holds the empeg sled. Sound quality is now terrific! I have a small Sharp MD unit that sometimes plug in and it sounds fine. I even tried a friend's Rio player via the empeg aux and it was ok, too.

Thanks for the tip Hugo!

=Mark


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