>100kHz response? Some species of bats indeed can detect 200kHz but they can't hear the human range sounds.
Then there is the question of transducers, I think I came across once a lab specimen that goes high ultrasonic. Then there is the problem of mics, top studio Telefunken U47 (9k $) goes only up to 20kHz. So, other than Batman music recorded with lab mics and played by lab transducers it might be a tall horse to climb.
Of course we can't hear 100kHz. The desirability of a flat response out to >100kHz has to do with minimizing the side effects from the cascading of low pass filters starting all the way from the recording process itself - as you correctly identify includes tranducers too.
Always need to be mindful of the time domain.