Why so much bass?

Or maybe their brain is turned to mush from too much bass...

The analagy suggests something that is "audible" by that specific object. Where something is not "Audible" in relation to something else there is no sound. Hence the RF waves you are thinking of that act like light through us but not something like a gallstone. I think the analogy was correct when refernced on the basis of the "audible" spectrum where people can hear. I am pleasantly disagreeing with you and I have many accounts, even energy equations that link the relation of energy intensities between different time intervals.

It is SPL that destroys hearing, not frequencies within the audible spectrum.

http://www.abelard.org/hear/hear.htm#loud-music

http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=STANDARDS&p_id=9735

And here's one that's pretty interesting and relates to the original thread of "why so much bass."

http://www.omnisonic.com/bbillings.html

Alien dude, I have read that last link before and right now I got DYohn in the lead here. You need to come back with some of those "many accounts, even energy equations that link the relation of energy intensities between different time intervals." that you have up your sleave because right now you are probally not gonna sway anyone your direction.

SPL and Freq go hand in hand...

Frequency = force \ time

Force is larger when time is shorter and frequency is in result higher.

(reverse) Higher frequency means time interval is shorter and force is larger

Physical work = Force times the distance the force is applied over

Force is greater with the same distance, more physical work occurs.

Not to mention the higher/midrange frequencies are at extremely high BeatsPerMinute, if they weren't then the complexity of music its self would not exist. Bass on the other hand is usually simplistic, low BPM when compared to what it takes just to say a word in any song. I don't know if anyone has any visual music software but if you visually look at 120hz and compare it to 60hz you can clearly see the higher frequencies cause more change over a shorter period of time. Hit a wall 1 time with a hammer really hard in 5 seconds. The hit the same wall just as hard in a new location 2 times in 5 seconds, which dose more damage? That is why I prefer my bass to cancel some of the peak my mids and highs create. Reguardless of if the people outside can hear it.

Wow, Alien509 that last post was so, how can I say this, full of crap that I don't even know where to begin.  Wherever you are getting your information it is wrong.  You are mixing up several basic principles of physics that have not much to do with sound, and certainly nothing to do with any relative differences between lower and higher frequency sound waves.  BPM has nothing whatsoever to do with any of the things you are trying to link it to.  Nada.

How often one hits a wall with a hammer has nothing to do with how HARD one hits it or how much if any damage it might do.  Your basic premis is simply, utterly, incorrect.