Everything Tony said goes. It comes down to your preferences. One thing he forgot, if you send the empeg through the CD player you can also listen to your AM/FM radio in it without the empeg. Now that the Mark2 doesn't come standard with a tuner, that is an advantage. I personally put the empeg into the aux inputs of my CD player, because I didn't have an amp for a while, but now I do and will have to weight the advantages and disadvantages for when I get my new one.

-Waiting to replace the hole in my truck with a Mark2