[General Questions and Answers] indigotheory:
Hey man.

Ok here goes. Like I mentioned the volume boost is perfect. Any higher than max and your ears will bleed. They got it just right.

Ive found no options greyed out

I could do a YouTube video but I have a stammer so sorry im not that confident at the minute

Rooting pretty much any android device nowadays does set your status to modified at the bottom of your system settings yes. Firstly, its the chance we take out of curiosity and being given the knowledge and ability to really make the most from these powerful devices.

Yes when you root and flash your first rom it raises the flash counter, but really it seems like its an out of sight out of mind kind of thing, as you only see it when you boot into download mode which you pretty much only have to do when you root.

However, in the case of warranty and in the rare case of you actually wanting to go back to stock after playing around with a few roms and mods thanks to chainfire we have the triangle away app on the play store. Run that and it resets your flash counter and then its just a case of booting into download mode and flashing an official stock rom which will put the phone back to un rooted out of the box status. So in real world there aint much to worry about.

Pretty much all these custom roms are updated regularly so no need to worry about updates!

Stweaks is an app, which does not run in the background all the time. It also requires no permissions to run! Things will only get weird if you start messing with the cpu and gpu settings and etc if you dont know what your doing. Things which I leave well alone and I just play with the audio settings. However, in the case of accidental presses you automatically have the option to save or discard a change, so that kinda puts that little bit of extra security on the app.

So doing this just takes advantage of the dac, and there is little risk of damage here. Again it is a kernel specific app so just have your wits about you when you use it. I only use it just for the audio settings.

Its a well known fact the s2 had a **** audio chip, period. I also had an s2 and the audio quality was just plain awful. And no mod or tweak would budge it. Thats why Samsung went to using wolfson with the s3 and note 2 etc.

Overall the benefits of rooting and installing alternative roms and kernels etc far outweigh the little drawbacks of raising the flash counter and having a "modified" device. For me so far its been great. I have a great rom, and a great kernel with an app to directly get the upmost best from the wolfson dac, I also have just about zero ads in apps (ads in apps are a pet hate), my battery life is better already and im running the most up to date version of android (like I said these roms are always updated).

I use poweramp with the eq on flat and no extra changes etc because Stweaks takes care of all the settings like presets and eq. And it's probably the best im going to get with music. Luckily poweramp plays apple lossless files and my current headphones are good enough for the time being. Im very happy with this set up and it was definitely worth spending the majority of the day doing it all yesterday. I was a little out of touch with the whole backing up, rooting and modding etc. Last words for this post......my god it's worth it!