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You maintain wrong. 96 dB momentary peaks for music would mean 76 dB average. No way you would go deaf or even have your neighbor complain. There are cars out there where at speed have higher average noise level and we don't see people going deaf in them.I would maintain that very few of us run a system that offers up 96dB dynamic range on the music we listen to. We would lose our hearing fairly quickly if we did, and our neighbours would regularly call the noise police.
This whole argument comes from misreading of OSHA safety standards which are for noise and continuous basis, not momentary peaks in music. Here are the OSHA standard:
As indicated, you can have 95 dB SPL for whopping 4 hours per day and still be safe!
You can go up to 110 dB and still be OK for half hour.
So no, that is a myth. You don't go deaf at 96 dB SPL peak. Average will be at 76 which is not even in the above table.