No, Im not expecting the two to be the same, I do turn the volume down to about -35 but not completelty off. But on boot it is completely off, only when coming from AC power to DC. Yes the volume appears to be the only thing that resets. I havent messed with the eq yet so I dont know if that does yet or not. The song/position in the playlist stays fine. It was originally set to Previous Volume, but I just switched it to Current Volume yesterday to see if that would help with this issue. and it didnt.