For about a month now I've been experiencing a strange noise problem. Randomly, it seems, the empeg develops a rather loud hissing sound, not unlike the hissing you get between songs on a tape when your stereo is at high volume.

Sometimes the hissing will be there right as the player starts up, and sometimes it will happen after it has been playing for a while. The volume of the hiss does not change with the volume of the music, nor does the hissing go away when the player is paused.

I have not been able to find a cause of the problem.

The only cure that I have found is hard-restarting the player (i.e. pulling it out of the sled) several times (but sometimes once will do it) I don't often listen to it in my house so I don't know if it only happens in the car or not. I have checked all the connections etc... and everything seems to be hooked up and clean.

what do you think?