What I hate are the IMAX rooms in my local theater. I love the standard globe IMAX, they're fantastic. However, there is a new IMAX spec made to allow easy conversion from a normal theater into an "IMAX" theater by adding a slightly larger screen, and MASSIVE speakers into a smallish room. Those speakers are *not* meant to be in such a damn small room, and it's bloody ******* painful when I watch a movie in one of those rooms. Watched Super 8 in a room like that, never going for the IMAX rooms ever again. I love sound, it's why I spend so much on headphones, and I don't want to lose my hearing. The spec is something like 16,000 watts, that absolutely does not belong in a standard size theater.
A lot of people play music way too loud into their (usually) earbuds. Maybe the spec was made for them?
That explains why it was so damn loud. I was in one of those IMAX rooms and it is just way too damn loud. What I'm even more amazed is that other people don't notice how loud it is.
