shhhh/still not the time

As if to confirm one of the points in the post below this one, after glowing praise Darcy's Secret Society, Steve Smith complains: "The Bowery Poetry Club is a smallish space; why, then, should an 18-piece band be amplified as if it were Maynard Ferguson playing the Astrodome?"

While generally not to such an extreme, I've encountered this kind of logic-defying situation quite often. As always, the question remains: why?