AudioFred Messages: 377 Registered: May 2009 Location: Houston
Illuminati (1st Degree)
It can be useful with some bass-shy recordings, but it is overused more often than not. Most of the mass market equipment we hear in peoples' homes and cars, and it any big box store, has far too much midbass boost dialed in.
Here's an example. It's the frequency response of the stereo in my 2010 Nissan Sentra with the tone controls set flat: