Actaully, I do believe the fellow. Here's why:

1. The fellow that I was talking to named Empeg/Rio Car to me when I simply described the device to him prior to telling him the name of the device.
2. Fairfax County, Virginia is the single richest county in the nation. We were the Silicon Valley of the East before the Dot Bust.
3. Due to point 2, we had, and still have, a large congregation of well paid geeks living in the area.
4. Hurley's is the only auto audio dedicated shop in Tyson's Corner.
5. Most of the auto dealers in Tyson's send all of their auto audio work to Hurley's.

Seem like plenty of reasons to believe the fella.

Anyway, as I stated, I'll share the outcome with you all here tomorrow afternoon after I have it installed.