But I don’t like too much bass.

Which is what’s stupid. I’ve bought so many cheap headphones that either had total emphasis on bass (cheap) or total emphasis on treble (cheaper).

Midrange is a lot concept, which, I guess I can understand, seeing that rock guitarists have been cutting their mids for YEARS now, since the 70′s at least. Still, a lot of vocals/drums are in the midrange, and that’s just with rock music.

When it comes to electronic music, there’s a lot, and I mean a fucking lot, of emphasis on midrange. GOOD dubstep focuses everywhere as well, to truly listen, you can’t just listen through some giant subwoofer. The subwoofer lets you get that “wubwubwub” heart pounding bass through, but a good 90% of the song is still in the midrange. Hell, Rusko’s music mostly focuses on the midrange. So you still need a truly good speaker system t enjoy it. (And Rusko’s not even considered “good” dubstep, a lot of people call his style brostep, but in reality Skrillex and all of those guys just took his style and bastardized it)

So yeah, while there will always be dumbasses who just buy into the next big fad, there will always be us who simply enjoy music, and know the difference between a quality speaker and a subwoofer.

To put it simply, the system is too big with too many people involved in it.

Things definitely seem to be getting bad and it seems that the system is moments away from total collapse.

Maybe the 2012 nutters were right after all…

Seriously though, am I crazy or does it seem like back in the day (oh lets say 1940′s or so) there was more of an emphasis on treble / mid-range? Then once you got into around the 1970s, there was more emphasis on a full range system. I think this carried on into the 80s and possibly the 90s… then at some point in late 90′s / 2000′s we began this “ZOMG BASS!!! wubwubwub” crap.

You can tell certain songs were written to be played back on a car audio system with $1,000 in sub woofers and their amps alone… and maybe some afterthought of a “oh yeah, the kit comes with other speakers as well”

Anyways, I’m ok with lots of bass, but what really bugs me is the lack of a proper mid-range. A lot of speaker systems I’ve seen have nice treble, lot’s of bass of course… but like, nothing for the mid-range… So your music has either too much bass or too much treble. It either sounds muffled or tiny… no middle ground.

That thing you just threw away because you thought it was completely useless and you’d never need it, you could really use right about now. (Generic statement to illustrate the point)

I’d much rather have a pile of new spare parts so that any time I needed a replacement part, I wouldn’t have to go order and wait a week for it to arrive.