To me, truth of instrumental & vocal timbre and the ability of the machinery to play a tune are far more important than slam or how deep the bass goes.
Tune?? how is that possible, when the foot tapping bass, sounds like a stick of salami being smacked on a bed mattress, in the 3rd music pass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ&ab_channel=MattMayfieldMusic
All it serves to do is give listeners fatigue. Because it’s relentless in it’s average level and there’s no quite parts to let the music, your ears, and your brain time to breath.
If it were live, there’d be no compression, just like any sound in life.
Can you imagine if life’s sounds were compressed to all the same level!!
eg: distant traffic noise being the same volume level as the singing bird in the tree next to you
"If you have no quiet you can have no loud"
It’s called dynamic range. Why screw up our music by taking it away??
Cheers George