Nah - that's just not true. We've pushed this update to tens of thousands of units over the past week - and we have not seen this issue reported before gHuntleys post, and then subsequently in the comments to his post in our community.
Previously, i mentioned the notion of it being a data corruption issue. We have integrity verification, so this is extremely unlikely, but as it is an easy check, we recommend trying this out. If you try to re-upgrade, and it skips the “transferring” step and goes directly to “Ready to patch”, it means that the previous upgrade had been successful with no corrupted data and that you have had the correct firmware on your speaker. (In this case it will be a very fast process) If however, it started to transfer files, it is worth to wait until the transfer step is completed to make sure you have the right firmware.
In the meantime, we will continue to investigate internally in SOUNDBOKS, and try to figure out why some users are experiencing this, when we are not experiencing it ourselves, and it has not occurred in any of our testing.
I find it fishy that you haven’t connected the dots between “firmware update meant to mitigate speaker cone damage under specific power delivery circumstances” and “user experiencing unexpected power reduction at all power delivery circumstances”.
Blaming the user here is not endearing you to the community.
It’s probably because a bulk of his replies have been along the lines of “the update transfer was probably corrupted, you must have misapplied it. Can you try again?”
At least one person in this thread alone mentioned reapplying the firmware update fixed it for them. "Try it again" is a common troubleshooting step for a good reason. There's no reason to assume malice from the presence of such a suggestion.
For some reason i can't reply to your next post, dpratt - so i'll reply here. I'm not intending to blame the user. I am merely saying that this is not something that all users that set their output above 5 experience.
It is definitely possible that there is a link; as i said, we're investigating, and in the meanwhile we recommend to try to reupdate as we have customers where that has fixed the issue.