In my case it was those live performances that gave me some of the hearing loss. I personally don't believe it is possible to accurately reproduce a live performance due to the inherent limitations of our equipment at any price range. I have never heard a live recording that came close to "being there" due to the limitations of the recording equipment and then the mixing and then the RAII curves and the compression and then factor in the equipment we all use to listen. All we can do is make it sound the best way we like it. I think the older we get the more we tend to like bass because you can feel it as well as hear it and we don't hear too much above about 7k hz anyway.