Music Lover vs Audiophile

[JoeE SP9]

I always wonder, why does it only take two ears to hear what (according to many engineers) takes 15+ microphones to record.

The best sounding recordings I've collected in 45+ years all have two things in common. They were all done with minimal miking (many with only two) and they have little or no (studio sweetening) processing.

Byron4: Please stop thinking that bass isn't important to the majority of audiophiles. That's simply an incorrect assumption. Accurate natural sounding bass is what I and many others are after. In my case I've been spurred on by being a bass player. A system not having enough bass for you means only one thing; it doesn't have enough bass for you, nothing else.
Also, calling my previous post childish mainly because you don't agree with it is actually the childish response. Please don't start calling people names. No one was doing it before you started posting.

Whenever you post incorrect assumptions about others I will post a dissenting post.

FWIW: My system is flat to ~18Hz. Even so, I've had people tell me it doesn't have enough bass. For many people enough bass has nothing to do with flat response. What a lot of people think is bass is above 100hz in frequency and is actually lower midrange, not bass. Wanting excess energy in that range usually coincides with wanting extra treble. That places the sound in the "boom and sizzle" area.