Check out this problem with the Neo 35 in-car MP3 player, from Funmp3players.com forum list: It looks as if there is a problem with digital cell phone signals and this player.

http://www.funmp3players.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=5724&forum_id=4&Topic_Title=pssffft+noise&forum_title=General+%2D+Neo+Car+Jukebox&M=False&S=True

Then on this thread this guy is having the same problem and has OnStar in his 2002 Chevy Avalanche:

http://www2.funmp3players.com/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=5741&forum_id=4&Topic_Title=Does+Yours+Skip+Like+Crazy%3F&forum_title=General+%2D+Neo+Car+Jukebox&M=True&S=True



Enjoy the Ride...

I especially like this part.

In reply to:

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This is NOT a NEO problem; digital transmitters (ie, wide band noise makers) are notorious for this kind of EMI.

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What an ass!

Years ago, in the days of the original Motorola flip-phones, I had a portable CD player that I plugged into my car's cassette deck. I noticed that every once in a while, the CD player would just stop. The odd thing is that I never seemed to notice it stop; it would just occur to me all of a sudden.

Turns out that, when in the car, I placed my flip-phone in a dash pocket, and the cable running from the CD player to the cassette deck ran just above it. When the phone would get an incoming call, it would apparently generate enough of a magnetic field to induce a current in that cable, which, for some reason, turned the CD player off. I never noticed it turning off because I'd answer the phone and want the player to be paused, not noticing that I never actually did it.

I moved the cable so that it didn't run so close to the phone, and that solved the problem. Until I noticed that I now had to pause the CD player myself, which was no fun. So I strung the cable back the way it was before and considered it a feature.

I get noise from my cell phone since I installed the empeg. I get static when I use the phone or when driving around and it switches nodes. But the bonus is I can tell when I am getting a call before the phone rings.

I think its unreasonable for consumers to expect to use both a cell phone AND a stereo in the same car at the same time! That would require stereo manufacturers to use good immunity designs!

Rob