Ah! yes!
Well the KEY phrase was "on paper".
At the risk of confusing things, if you were transposing even very good analogue tape recordings there would indeed be no benefit. Even the very best pro machines began to squash at +6 to +8 over peak flux (we won't go there!) and there was no chance of 20dB+peaks.
Playing back the excretable black things, a cartridge CAN respond to a scratch or particle and put out a horrendously large transient so my idea is to give yourself a good margin to accomodate such peaks.
This will, of course, result in very quiet cds! But you can crank the level in software after recording and get the level you want. If using a burner like Nero I would advise against the "normalize" function, they always come out too loud for my home hi fi system. But of course the great thing is once you have the music in the digital can, you can experiment ad.n.
Dave.
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