I can see that the knob might be less response immediately after startup, because the player is doing a lot of disk reading at that point.

Well, it only happens with the hijack kernal. So unless it's hijack that is doing the disk reading, I don't understand why.

And the "knob twist debounce" logic in Hijack DOES add a slight delay to all knob rotations, and this could be magnified if the player is really busy with the drive, I suppose.

Sounds like this might be it. I tried searching and couldn't find what this is for? Is it possible to make it a config.ini option?

If not, I'd like to request a set volume startup level feature (In car/home the player always boots with a volume of -Xdb). I think this has been discussed before and seems like it would be very useful.

Tom