This scenerio seems to happen. You watch a great movie and have the volume turned up to -10 or something and shut your system down without turning the volume down. The next time you turn it on it's very load so you hit the mute button real fast. Now the problem, if you try and reduce the volume the sound comes back on blarring. Am I doing something wrong? If not I would suggest the next pre/pro allow you to adjust the volume while the mute is on.


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I have had the same issue. When I turn the unit back on and forget that the volume was very high I get a big surprise. I had a HK receiver that allowed me to program the db level to the same volume everytime I turned it on. This was a very nice feature that the 950 should have or at least add to the next generation pre/pro

DVD's are recorded at a lower level than some other formats (video tapes, CD's) to allow for more headroom. That's the reason that a reasonable to loud listening level on DVD's can be a severely loud listening level on other sources.

If you get into the position of having the 950 turned up too loud for the active source and don't want to unmute it, hit an inactive input button at the top of the remote. That will turn the mute off, but you'll be on an input that isn't playing anything and you can turn it down there.

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To preclude ever being blasted out of the room, or possibly damaging the equipment, I have had a long standing practice of turning the volume down to its lowest point before I turn off any piece of audio equipment. A long while back I had read an article that put forth the theory that if you turned off audio equipment before reducing the volume to its lowest level you risked damaging the equipment because of voltage spikes that would occur when the equipment was shutdown. I don’t know if this is true or not, but this practice has kept me from having to cover my ears while trying to use the remote to turn down the volume.

It would be great if the Outlaws made their next pre/pro with a feature similar to that which Raider described. In the meantime, I have a macro programmed on the power button of my universal remote (not the one that comes with the 950) to hit volume down a few times before sending the power off command.

Any wizards out there that could disassemble the firmware of the 950 and fix those few remaining bugs and add things like auto-volume reset discussed here ?

For that matter, what make chip holds the firmware and is it socketed ?

And yes I'm aware it voids the warranty.

Mike

Is it possible to program a one-button macro function to drop down 5 clicks immediately? I'd love to have that for movies as I don't really like having such wide variances between gunfire and whispers. Seems like it's work here too.

I don't see any reason you couldn't do a macro that sends "volume down" five times.

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Other than not having a remote capable of macros.

But the 950's remote is capable of macros. In addition to being able to program a macro onto the power button, there are the four macro buttons at the bottom of the remote that can each hold two macros - one for the top row of device modes (AUD, CD, DVD, and AUX) and another for the bottom row of device modes (SAT, TV, VCR, and CBL).

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