I have a 95 mustang which comes stock with an amplifier that works with the factory head. I replaced the factory head a long time ago with a Pioneer4100. The pioneer sounded really good, I had a conversion unit on the pioneers speaker outputs to convert it to a line level signal which allowed me to drive the amplifier nice and hot. I purchased the riocar empeg unit and figured I would make it my primary sound device and run the pioneer into it's auxilary inputs. After doing so the quality of sound went down the tubes. The first problem was overall volume. Apparently the empeg only has 4volt outputs? Which is just a bit shy of what my factory amp needs. I've been looking for a line driver "preamp" to boost the line level signal because I don't want to have my pioneer on just to listen to the empeg (due to making the pioneer my primary). But on another hand here.. The EQ on the empeg dosn't sound very good to me for some reason. I'm quite familiar with parametric EQs and at home at least, I get much better results flattening the empegs EQ and using the analog EQ of my home rig. Basically I'm posting to see if anyone knows where to find a decent line driver that dosn't have to be mounted in dash, perhaps a small unit to sit behind the heads inside the dash. And also, if anyone has had similiar problems with the EQ..

I kind of get the feeling that it would SOUND best if I did use the pioneer to power the empeg and use the pioneers EQ's.. I just didn't want to have two heads on to basically only use one....

Do you need a line driver? If the voltage is in the ballpark, can't you just increase the volume of the empeg and then lock it at that level.

Oh....your empeg is the primary unit.....sorry.

Have you read the installation section of the FAQ?

Perhaps the PAC OEM-1 or a similar product is what you need.

http://www.go2pac.net/flash800v2.html

When the empeg is at 0db it's not loud enough. Pushing it past 0 introduces undesired artifacts in the sound. Distortion from the digital gain increase.

I can't seem to find any information on their site about the pac boosting gain levels. But if it does, it's surley the monster for me.

Sorry the URL didn't go to the product I wanted. Check out the Turbo-X or Turbo-1. The website says:

The Turbo 1 and Turbo X increase the pre-amp level being delivered to the amplifiers. Increasing pre-amp level signal helps to better balance your system and allows you to get more "juice" out of your amplifiers.Signal to noise ratio of 96 dB for high quality sound.

BY THE WAY: I DO NOT WORK FOR OR HAVE ANY AFFILIATION WITH PAC. I just like their unique products