danadam
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How will not "summing everything together" help with that? Seems like what's missing is additionally specifying the max output, but that's true regardless if everything is summed together or not.A 120dB SNR re: 4V = a noise residual of .000004V = -108dBV. There are many in-ear monitors whose sensitivity meaningfully exceeds 120dBSPL/V, some are as high as into the 140s (which is, in my opinion, exceedingly bad design for exactly this reason, but it is what it is). With any such IEM, that noise floor will be audible (most likely as a "hiss", as it will likely be white/Johnson noise).