Now if only you had a ford explorer w/ leather seats, I could pilfer your eq settings!

I don't ever make use the empegs' eq settings at all. I've setup the empeg as a slave to the alpine so all my tweaking is done through it since its superior to the empegs' capability IMO. As an added bonus, the setup allows me to use the knob for other functions instead of volume.

As far as buying a pelican 1400 in Canada, I just emailed the Canadian distributor and they gave me a list of all the places I could buy one in my area. Then I just called them all and found the best price that wasn't too far.