I'm curious about something, is overdriving always bad no matter what the source material? Yes, clipping would always occur on anything over 0db if the original song is normalized and uses all of the 16 bits that CDs offer, but more than a few of my cds, especially the ones made early, have not been normalized in the studio at all and the maximum signal (stupidly) never reaches higher than 80% of the cd maximum. And it seems that every CD has sections where it never comes close to the peak volume for long periods of time, especially with classical and musical CDs, where those max volume levels are saved for certain sections. In those cases I would think that overdriving the Empeg would actually not cause any clipping at all. Am I wrong?