The cabinet if it has a face will act like a beard on any stand mount speaker, that will give a super bass increase because the bass is coming back on the cabinet face. The lack of a narrow stand and the cabinet exacerbates the issue. You say the bass is all right. It's not or the port wouldn't be plugged.
I run up to 20 bass drivers, 12 8" MB and 6 12" OB servo drivers. Not only is there no boom. You actually feel it in your chest, not through your bottom or feet. Very different than a conventional bass systems.. Even than DSP. I use correction from 80hz to 300hz. AND the drivers are direct coupled to 12K amps. No passive XOs. They can't dampen the drivers with passive components in the way. It just doesn't work that way..
One other thing my main listening rooms are around 300-320sf. Not big, not small. The rooms, in the seated position are pretty flat 25hz to almost 18khz @ 90 db
What do you want? I can turn it to 120db pretty easy.. Not with me in the room.
PORTS are a PITA, I'm a passive radiator guy. Small planar and ribbon too.. How do you tune a fixed port to a room? You can't a passive radiator you can add and subtract mass to account for the amp, cable and some room flaws. You can't with a fixed port..
Regards