What is the best DB level to

It depends on a number of factors. Including but not limited to the following:

1. Your audio equipment's sound type. Does it produce a golden or light, warm or analytical, yin or yang (yuck) type sound?

2. Your amplifier specifically. Does it strain or congest with loud and/or complex music as most amplifiers do?

3. Your room's acoustics. Is it too live, too dead, or just right?

4. Your room's size. Is it too big, too small, or just right?

5. Your speakers. Are they too big, too small, or just right for the size room you have?

6. Your electrical configuration for your equipment. At a minimum, have you installed a dedicated 20 amp circuit/line for your amplifier to ensure your amp is getting all the juice it may need? This makes a big difference in dynamic headroom where a loud recorded bit of information is allowed to jump out at you like the real thing. Or is your dynamic headroom pretty flat where soft passages have pretty much the same impact as loud passages?

7. Your listening comfort level.

I listen to 90% of all music (and the ocassional movie) at about 13% of full volume. It's a very comfortable yet impacting volume level for me with my equipment, my amp, my room acoustics, my room size, my speakers, my electrical configuration, and my comfort level. See that was easy. :)

-IMO

Sean, if one happened to like violin and perhaps not care for a 'jammin' rock band or vice versa, then yes.

But Sean just because it's a 'jammin' rock band doesn't mean one instantly needs to crank it up to 100+db. If you're talking Guns N Roses or Metallica, or def cheatah, perhaps, but there are just as many variations of what one considers to be a 'jammin' rock concert as there are people.

However, I would like to see a 'jammin' live pipe organ concert.

Hi, Sean. I didn't take your comments personally. But I don't know anybody (nor do I think I want to know anybody) that plays anything at 110db sound levels.

One thing I forgot to mention about volume and listener fatigue. Most amplifiers begin to strain or congest at louder volumes and/or when playing complex music passages. Therefore, this is certainly a critical component when attempting to establish pleasureable listening levels.

-IMO