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Originally Posted by Humble  Harry,
Your sentences refer to Conditional III – passed situations that did not happen (unreal passed situations).
1. I don’t know what I would have done if you hadn’t helped me.
2. If I had gone to the party, I wouldn’t have enjoyed it.
In the original sentence the speaker expresses his certainty – he is nearly 100% sure Myer “grew up with the sounds around him”.
I think he could as well say “ he must have grown up with the sounds around him.”
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Yes. I think "he must have grown up with the sounds around him" makes it easier to understand on the one hand and on the other it shows that the speaker is 100% sure of it. But I think we could say like this: He is more likely to have grown up with the sounds around him."