Hi, I think the new volume setting is fine and the -db setting is very intuitive when you get used to it. But I think it wasn't a good idea to remove clipping prevention completely. The argument was: "almost no hifi-equipment uses clipping prevention, so why should we use it?" Rockbox is better than every other dap-firmware I have seen yet, so I use it because it is NOT a standard software.
When I am using headphones I couldn't care less about clipping because the highest volumes kill my ears so I don't use them. But I do connect my H120 to my stereo equipment at home and then I have to set the volume to line level. Before this new method was implemented, I could turn volume up and everything was fine. Now I have to go tho the options menu and have to scale the bass back manually to prevent clipping. You removed a very useful setting (scaling back bass/treble to prevent clipping) just because it is more mainstream this way. Even the original iriver-firmware does clipping prevention! So I would suggest to include one (only one) option: "Apply Clipping Prevention: YES/NO" which scales back bass and treble in the background when it is set. I hope you understand what I want to say. I'm not sure because english isn't my native language. Simon (from Germany)
