What music do you want to play really loud?

John Mellencamp- Crumblin' Down, Pink Houses
Joe Cocker- Seven Days
U 2- Silver and Gold
Midnight Oil- Beds Are Burning
Page and Plant-Nobody's Fault But Mine
Gregg Allman- Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Lately it's been Rachel Podger doin' La Stravaganza.

"The Sound of Glory"...SACD...Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Several hundred voices, orchestra, monster organ. This can never sound too loud.

Sousa marches also sound good loud.

On the other hand, I sometimes find myself playing music like a violin concerto too loud. The total SPL is not too loud, but I suddenly realize that, because of the way the recording has been mixed, the solo violin is louder than any real violin can play.

These days, very little.

At age 20-21 it was any one of the first five Chicago albums, Rolling Stones' "Some Girls" or "Let it Bleed", miscellaneous Moody Blues, Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick", ELP's "Brain Salad Surgery", maybe some America or ELO, while I was trying to stay awake at 2AM typing up a paper due the next day. With a couple of Miller's, worked like a charm.

Hmmm. Obviously haven't done that in a while. Have to try it again when the rest of the family is out.

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod