Best excuse for playing loud music?

Blind them with science. http://www.webervst.com/fm.htm

heheh, that's a good one 'I'm recording' heheh

Another good one is "I can't hear you, the music's too loud"

The better sound I have heard is the 'low volume with everything there' type. Tho sometimes there is no substitute for cubic inches ;-)

~~~~I agree with Tim. When you hear a good system the music isn't loud, it's lifelike and accurate. You become aware of the spl's when you leave the room and come back in.

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I have it this loud because you won't stop talking! (speaking to my wife).

Excitement, plain and simple. I disagree that mediocre equipment sound better loud -- all my experience informs that QUITE the opposite is true.
I wanted the capability to play loud and have spent a fortune achieving it, now that I have it I can't use it because my ears will be destroyed -- reason being that it SOUNDS GREAT LOUD! Highs airy and crisply deliniated, mids pure and revealing, mid bass FORCEFUL and dense and bass face-hammering! Never the sense that it is really starting to irritate your ears until you walk away and your head feels unbalanced and misaligned -- with crappy stuff, like a boombox or TV, I start to get the sense of it being too loud before it is anywhere near the output of my system (about 8000 watts).