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-6db is a lot, especially if no improvement in sound quality is to expect, if -0.2dB is already enough to prevent the CAudioLimiter to trigger.So you care about extracting every little bit of dynamic range, yet you recommend a -6 dB attenuation (which is quite substantial) just on the off chance that mixed audio might clip? Does audio quality really matter that much when multiple applications are playing audio at the same time, anyway?
But, if I understand correctly, Windows software volume control would attenuate much more than that. I don't recklon anyone would use it only in the narrow margin of -6dB to 0 dB.
So I don't see anything wrong with a -6db preamp, unless software volume control is wrong in the first place.