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Originally Posted by pruss
A bit of googling hasn't actually turned up any Android user claiming destruction of speakers from any of the sound boost apps.
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No google needed. A few posts back there is a claim that a user destroyed her speakers just by listening at high volume WITHOUT a sound boost app:
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
You can destroy your speakers by just using the maximum volume the system has for long periods of time. I have done that in the past anyway. ...
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If true, boosting the volume would increase the chances of that. But without enough reports of this from other users, you cannot make a reliable conclusion from the statistical insignificance of a small number of reports.
Speakers are shock sensitive. It is possible (perhaps likely) that the speakers were damaged by dropping the kindle (and the damage became worse with high volume levels). Shock damage can also occur by feeding high-impulse energy (full-volume clicks or pops) to the speakers (but the kindle hardware and firmware should compensate for that).
However, it makes perfect sense for you to set the DEFAULT values to a known-safe level, but allow the user to adjust the settings to any value the hardware provides (with adequate warning about loud volume levels causing possible damage to speakers, or to ears when wearing earphones). If somebody releases a slider at a level above your defined "safe" threshold, you could do an "are you sure?" popup with that warning...