Picture this: you’re driving around on the perfect day and the perfect song comes on the radio. Let’s say it’s LL Cool J’s “Going Back to Cali” (just because). You hit the tone control knob on your factory stereo and you get…

Balance? No. Push the knob again: “Fader”. Again: “Treble”. Finally, “Bass”. You turn up the bass control a couple of notches but this span of inattention has caused you to miss the “I wanna do this Brutus, but I don’t wanna pay” line. To make things worse, you’ve run over a couple of people.

I don’t have any user data, but I would guess that the balance control is only used by people with hearing loss in one ear that they wish to damage further. For everyone else, the audio settings should be presented in the order of descending frequency of use. My first guess absent anything but first-person observation would be bass, treble, fader, and balance.