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@Airhead
Not really sure what the point is. Tape is allowed to be more difficult to gain stage than digital if you want. I'm talking about people playing mastered music which has been electronically adjusted to 0db so that when you play that you run the risk of pushing the amp into the edge of its performance.
If you do the same thing with tape you get saturation and compression naturally. Of course it's distortion in the recording process at that point.
It's my belief that digital systems are often overloading the inputs of amps because they get mastered to 0db or thereabouts very often in order to compete for attention.