What is your listening level?

Hi Al - I've been away for a few days. Yes, as you suspected, that 82dB figure is an average level, +/- 2dB, for recording engineers. Of course, peaks would be much higher. I was assuming the OP meant an average level. And I have also found, when I have turned on my SPL meter in rehearsals for fun, that the average level of most of what happens onstage is about that same amount, again peaks being much higher, and the softest things quite a bit lower. But the average would be somewhere around that 82dB figure, or not much lower, anyway.

There is some guess work involved but I tried to listen to music at the level it was recorded at.

Probably average 85 dbs with peaks < 100 dbs. My speakers seem to require a kick in the pants to come alive, so 65 - 70 dbs just puts me to sleep.

What Dan_ed said!!!

Elizabeth, is 70dB on a fast dBC?