MacacoDoSom
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It is much the same as attitude "all Japanese airplanes are biplanes and all Japanese pilots wear glasses" at the outbreak of WWII. It held true - up to the first encounter with Zeros.
You would be surprised how quietly the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra can play - it is their trademark, of which they are immensely proud - quite justifiably so. And that IS below reasonable intellegibility of CD redbook. No CD you ever could have possibly heard can do this kind of mastery of playing really quietly justice. CD produces at these really low levels AND high frequencies from multiple instruments (approx 90 members, all playing ) a decisively homogenized porridge out of real thing - this is NOT as easy as playing -100 dB level 1 kHz sine wave tone - which can be properly played back with CD redbook using appropriate dithering.
Sorry, but being conservative, even if it is overkill, usually does produce better results. Having "just" the capability, under the best possible of conditions vs having sufficient overkill for even the worst case scenario - which one would you choose, provided your own scalp is at stake ?
...have you tried a CD mat?