I don't know If I miss it per se, particularly if I'm preoccupied with other things while I'm away. I can tell you, however, that it's interesting to see how much I appreciate it when I've been away from it.

So to somewhat dovetail on your comments about listening to music on the ride back home, I am always stunned about how much information you miss and/or how much different things sound when you pop that CD out of your car radio or desktop boombox and stick it in your home system.

Lastly, I don't know how your brother-in-law's system sounds, but the bass comment makes me think of how many people have truly awful sounding systems they think sound great. I think home theater has been a real culprit in this. I've seen people who have big buck flat panel TVs and would have an otherwise good HT if it weren't for the junky home-theater-in-a-box system they bought to go with it. They must think all that boomy bass on everything from the Super Bowl to a Right Guard commercial is normal. And they really sound bad with music.