So speakers have a worst case maximum power and sound profile. That is the bounds that if you never exceed you will be safe. But if you push past those worst ca

So speakers have a worst case maximum power and sound profile. That is the bounds that if you never exceed you will be safe. But if you push past those worst case bounds, now you are entering a dynamic system where things like temperature start determining the actual bounds of the hardware and the points where stuff starts causing damage. Apple provides a system that drives the speakers within those bounds as close to the actual bounds as possible to get the most out of the system that they realistically can. Asahi is trying to do the same but are choosing a profile that is far more conservative than apple to start with while they get things ironed out. This profile they have is still an improvement over the worst case bounds but it has very sharp/jarring "safeties" that trigger when the system suspects it might be close to damaging the hardware (dropping immediately to a much lower, safe level vs apple's profile which gradually shifts the audio to a safe point without making it obvious that it is doing so).