I seriously doubt that your meter is off by 10%. At the frequency extremes this would be believable, but at avg. listening levels, what the meter said was likely very close to what you were hearing.
Btw, I too find SPLs in excess of about 90db at the listening level to be way too loud. Peaks of 90-95 are about as high as I can tolerate. Even then, only for a particularly favorite song.
Btw, I too find SPLs in excess of about 90db at the listening level to be way too loud. Peaks of 90-95 are about as high as I can tolerate. Even then, only for a particularly favorite song.