Thanks, Richard.

Re: "If it's too loud, you're too old."

Does that mean if it's too loud, your hearing is too good?

My mother had a hearing test at about age 75. She had never worked outside the home (much) and we never played music very loud at home. At the end of her test, the physician called in an assistant-in-training and said, "This is Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Jones has the best hearing of any person I have ever tested in my entire career."

And she was 75!

I inherited that hearing. Amateur soundmen who have deafened themselves can cause me terrible pain with sounds that don't even bother them.