My extra crappy room with an axiom setup totality blows away the 1 major theater in Charlottetown, An Empire 8 so it's not a small complex.
My dialog is way clearer and I hardly ever hear surround sound effects at the theater. I hear so much more at home.
Now to be fair to Empire, I recently went to one of their Theater complexes in Halifax and I was hearing all sorts of wonderful surround effects. A very noticeable posative difference over my home town.
At home I normally run movies set to 75db if people want it really loud (Big action movie) and less (65) for normal movies. This is probably conservative for most of you but 75 is pretty loud in my little room. Also, at 75 I still get quick peaks to 100-103 in really wild scenes. (Slow & C) I'm thinking I get this wider range because of the relatively small room.
