I have noticed the same thing, Raguirre. The level I want is slightly too loud for night time, but not so bad during the day. Thankfully I don't have annoying neighbors with cheap "home theaters in a box" to deal with. My real problem is that I don't really know the potential of my system. I can't really put my system under stress to see where it's breaking point is. (Not that I really want to, but the louder it is, the more realistic things will sound, usually.) I haven't experienced clipping with my amplifiers, simply because it would be too loud for everyone around me. I can image all of you with Krell mono blocks or something similar can reach very high listening levels. You all must live in houses where neighbors aren't much of an issue.
Level Restrictions?
So I was listening tonight and I noticed it was 10 p.m. Time to stop listening. I am 2 months short of graduating from college and I live in an apartment. My neighbors get irritated when my stereo is up too loud or on too late. I was wondering how many of you have restrictions placed on the volume level of your system either by your significant other, or neighbors, or young children. Am I the only one that can't really push my stereo because of my living environment? What do you do, if anything, to get around this?