Quoted from jyeakley:BTW - do people keep the volume at the default setting? It was so loud to start!
Stern likes to do this for some reason. Maybe they're imagining a noisy bar environment and a lazy operator that'll never mess with the settings, so they just crank it to 11 by default and figure it's better to deafen the player than not to be heard at all? Every time I update the code on my SW I suffer short-term hearing loss when I fire it up for the first time.