In the real world, in amps at least, it is one of the big reasons that people like to buy huge watt amps. Even though they won’t use the 1000w or whatever on a regular basis, and just keep the volume at a lower level, the argument is that if you hit some huge crescendo your amp has plenty of headroom to handle it. Also, In the real world, this is controversial and many sound engineers will call shenanigans on this. Your bass’s active electronics are the same concept: more volts equals more headroom so you will get more output out of your pickups if needed.
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