A Neat Experiment with the Car Radio, or Why There’s No Bass Knob on a Tuba

Less is so very much more. Most current auto radios have some sort of equalization circuitry. There may be bass and treble settings, you may have a three or five band equalizer, or maybe even those nifty presets (like “Jazz,” “News,” “Rock,” etc.). If you have a CD/MP3 player, the experiment will work better, but …