With the two-year-old around, I tend to not run it at really high levels like I sometimes used to. DVD's range from -25dB to -15dB depending on the circumstances, although if I've got the house to myself I'll get it up around -5dB or so. Cable TV normally runs at -35dB (my default start-up volume), although if we'll sometimes turn it up to -25dB or -20dB. At the -35dB level, we can still talk over the TV without it being distracting. Music varies really widely. If I'm really sitting down to listen and have the place to myself I'll get up to around -10dB, but a lot of times the music is more background while we are doing other things and it's closer to -30dB. That's all based on calibrating to 75dB with the internal test tones.