I've been thinking about some other interface behavior lately (while helping a co-worker set up a Rotel 1068), and one reason for the behavior of the mute/volume control on both the 1050 and the 950 comes to mind: intuitiveness. Most users will expect that when you hit the volume up or down buttons, the mute will cut off. Maintaining that behavior may be less desirable once in a while, but it also always retains an expected behavior all the time. If there was going to be a change to the way volume is controlled on future products, it would probably be a user-defined default volume at power up. On the other hand, if they do implement a default power-up volume setting, I'd like to see them go all the way with it and include an option to disable it and mimic the 950's behavior.



Or perhaps the 970, since the 1050's successor is going to be the 1070.

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