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.