It doesn't make sense. It breaks sense.

I have a chair. It's black, it sits on the floor, it rocks back and forth. It has 2 armrests for 2 arms, and it has a nice headrest for sleeping, if you like to sleep in rocking chairs. It has all the things for comfort.

Oh yeah, there's a speaker in the back.

Yeah, you can plug in your iPod, your computer, some video games and the sound will come out the back. I'm pretty surprised with the quality of the sound. There's quite a lot of bass. So much that when I was playing my music on it, my glass of water actually shook. The first time I did that, I reached down to the volume knob to lower the sound a bit when my hand came across another knob. I looked down. It was a smaller one next to the volume and it was labeled "bass." That's a problem.

Take a look at a car radio. Somewhere on there, there's gonna be an option for speaker balance, trebel, and...sigh...bass.

Probably on your music player there's an equalizer. And wouldn't you know it? There's an option for less bass.

Ok.

Let me ask a question. Who doesn't like bass? Why would you have a knob on there to turn it DOWN?

Like, I don't understand it. Bass is an important part of music. Bass is especially a big part of MY music, which includes trance, house, minimal, etc. I admit that people who just turn it up for the whole city to hear from their car are annoying, but if you're just listening to a song or something, shouldn't there be tons of bass?

Does it matter what kind of music you listen to? In rock, there's the bass guitar. In pop there's also a bassline. Even in classical music there's actually an instrument called A BASS. All of these parts are important in their respective music genres.

I vote to remove all bass options from every sound system and just keep them permanently on full. If you don't like it, get some iPod earphones. Those things are horrible.