I hate loud too! I use to be so scared of firecrackers and the vacuum cause of the noise, lol. NO, I'm not scared anymore . Anyways my pet peeve is how movies are so darn loud during the music and fight scenes, but not as loud when there is conversation going on, so you have to turn it up and then all of a sudden WHAM, there's blaring kabooms or songs going on argh!