Yep. When I first got the empeg it was sitting on my desk for over a month before ever getting to the car. The sound quality was wonderful going through the headphone amp and etymotics, and I got used to that. When I plugged it into the car finally, it just fell down on its face and I was pretty dissapointed. The soundstaging was loosy goosy, the bass was flat, the highs were punchy and irratating... etc. It tooks months of careful tweaking before I can actually sit down and listen for a while. There's probably a lot of people out there that would rather not spend months tweaking, and just twist the bass or treble knob and come to something sort of listenable quickly.

Calvin