Kurt Hamster wrote:

When it comes to recreational audio why should it matter whether we can
trust our hearing or not?

Two thoughts spring to mind:

1) I happen to enjoy my system better with the bass eq'd up a bit on a
lot of stuff. NOT everything.

2) I like to be able to set the eq 'flat' as best I can on some other
recordings because I want to hear the closest I can to what was intended
by its producers.