Originally Posted by pnsji
so it looks that the problem is that the amp is turn on/off by turning on/off the head unit. What you can do is to wire the remote turn on amp with ignition. So everytime the car is on, the amp is on. Then either radio or ipod, does not really matter.
Yup, that would do it, as long as you don't get that anoying amp pop. Although, even if that happened I've seen timers that can correct that problem too.
I just don't like it because it bypasses the head unit so you have to control the volume with the device. But hey it would do the trick.