Beware, my friends, of the volume setting following a Windows 8 upgrade. It will be cranked up to 100%. Should you have speakers plugged in through the headphone jack, they will receive a nasty blast of juice, and you may end up like me: with some beautiful, expensive, and BLOWN speakers.
Here's the story. I had a nice pair of Martin Logan bookshelf speakers--which retail for about USD$250 each--plugged into through the headphone jack via a Y-cable split out to RCA connectors into an old garage-sale receiver. I was having some problems with my W8 laptop, and so did a system restore.
Following the upgrade, I pulled up Pandora for some tunes, as I'd done a thousand times in the past. Little did I know that the volume had been cranked up to 100%! I innocently pressed the "Play" button, and was greeted with a massive blast of sound that rattled my eardrums. Surprised and shocked, I fumbled for a few seconds until I realized what had happened and found the pause button. After adjusting volume levels, and playing again, I sadly realized that this blast had shredded the tweeters in my beloved speakers.
Needless to say, this saddens me greatly, as I sit here and listen to my speakers hiss and crackle out Enya's lovely voice.
The volume was also set to 100% recent upgrade to v8.1, which prompted my post. I was ready this time, and had my receiver turned off--not that it mattered because my speakers were already blown--but I was annoyed to see that it had happened again, and thought that I might save another my pain.
I will spare you the rant about about usability testing of Windows releases.
Given the gravity of the situation, I deem the CAPS LOCK necessary, as it may spare you the cost of some high-end speakers:
DISCONNECT YOUR SPEAKERS BEFORE UPGRADING OR RESTORING A WINDOWS 8 MACHINE. CHECK YOUR VOLUME LEVELS BEFORE RECONNECTING.
Everlasting Love,
Keith :^)
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