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@donavabdear would not those natural sounds have harmonic structure? If the bass is not correct, then the sound is not correct. I have a different emotional reaction to what sounds like real thunder versus something that sounds like "fake thunder". One makes me think of summer storms, and rain. The other makes me think of bad EDM.

Perhaps another bad analogy. Do you ever go watch cover bands. The ones that try to mimic the original, will always be judged against the original, and if you can't do a reasonable Angus Young guitar rift, you will never be a great AC\DC cover band. Your brain can't not compare the original to what you are hearing. Compare that to a cover band that tries to make songs their own and not replicate the original exactly. It is often easier to enjoy those because you are engaged in the music, not engaged in a continuous comparison.

@donavabdear 

Your Paradigm Persona 9H bi-amped with 800 watts of SOA power will solve a lot of problems you didn't even know you had (harmonics, bass, whatever).

Going once, going twice:

@kota1 you posted a picture of Titanic going down, I was there for 6 months in Mexico filming that monster. There was only one side of the ship made so every once in a while we would have a flipped day, that meant everything was switched like looking in a mirror, we did that when we needed to do a scene with odd numbered lifeboats. The men's hair was parted on the opposite side as well as all their clothes being buttoned on the opposite side, they shook hands using their left instead of their right and all the writing was backwards. The tricks in movies show how much psychology and science are used together to achieve an outcome, just like sound, except sound is more psychological because it's invisible.

@donavabdear 

That wasn't the Titanic, that was the HMS "Beryllium" that sailed with an untreated "deck" LOL. 

@kota1 Oops, I didn't look at it much because you mentioned Titanic.